When Sarah Stanton was born on 20 January 1724, in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Stanton II, was 58 and her mother, Mary Starkweather, was 35.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The area came to be called Orford Parish, and was part of East Hartford, which had separated from Hartford in 1783.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places in England called Stanton or Staunton, especially Stanton in Staffordshire and Staunton in Worcestershire, all named with Old English stān ‘stone’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Most of the placenames come from their situation on stony ground, but in the case of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire and Stanton Drew in Avon the reference is to the proximity of prehistoric stone monuments. The name has also sometimes been chosen by Ashkenazic Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames. This surname has also long been established in Ireland (especially Mayo).
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