When Ruth Hawley was born on 31 December 1744, in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Samuel Hawley, was 40 and her mother, Ruth Crandall, was 23. She married James Clark on 28 February 1765, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She died about July 1809, in Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 64.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Rhode Island declares independence from Great Britain on May 4, 1776, making it the first colony to do so officially.
During 1780 to 1781, over 12,000 French troops occupy Newport, Rhode Island.
English: habitational name from a lost place called Hawley in Sheffield (Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse haugr ‘hill, burial mound’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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