Brief Life History of Bildad
When Bildad Granger Jr. was born on 2 June 1766, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Bildad Granger, was 24 and his mother, Hannah King, was 21. He married Hannah Calkins on 26 April 1789, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1847, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Bildad, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Bildad Granger in entry for Hannah Calkins, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
- Bildad Granger, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor. This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange ).
French: from Old French grangier (see 1 above), an occupational name for an owner of a granary or a status name for a tenant farmer, a sharecropper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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