When Abigail Caverley was born on 5 October 1714, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Philip Caverley Sr., was 26 and her mother, Hannah Adams, was 26. She married Ezra Strong Sr on 12 January 1730, in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 3 July 1788, in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Calverley in Yorkshire, named with Old English calfra (genitive plural of calf ‘calf’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Alternatively, in some instances the name may be a variant of the habitational name Calveley, from a place so called in Cheshire (with the same meaning as above), or from Calverleigh in Devon, meaning ‘the clearing of the bare wood’ (Old English calu ‘bare, bald’ + wudu ‘wood’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’).
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