When Samuel Bishop was born on 20 August 1767, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Samuel David Bishop, was 30 and his mother, Anna S. Bell, was 27. He married Phebe Mott on 18 January 1794, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 14 April 1851, in Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Noroton River Graveyard, Darien, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
George Washington elected first president of United States.
English: from Middle English bissop, biscop, Old English bisc(e)op ‘bishop’, which comes via Latin from Greek episkopos ‘overseer’. The Greek word was adopted early in the Christian era as a title for an overseer of a local community of Christians, and has yielded cognates in every European language: French évêque, Italian vescovo, Spanish obispo, Russian yepiskop, German Bischof, etc. The word came to be applied as a surname for a variety of reasons, among them a supposed resemblance in bearing or appearance to a bishop, and selection as the ‘boy bishop’ on Saint Nicholas's Feast Day. In some instances the surname is from the rare Middle English (Old English) personal name Biscop ‘bishop’. As an Irish surname it is adopted for Mac Giolla Easpaig, meaning ‘servant of the bishop’ (see Gillespie ). In North America, this surname has absorbed, by assimilation and translation, at least some of continental European cognates, e.g. German Bischoff , Polish, Rusyn, Czech, and Slovak Biskup , Slovenian Škof (see Skoff ).
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