When Elizabeth Sisson was born on 19 June 1786, in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Philip Sisson Jr, was 22 and her mother, Susanna Bowen, was 18. She married Jabez Howland about 1823, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 19 January 1862, in Clinton, Township of Clinton, Lenawee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, United States.
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The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island becomes the last of the original 13 colonies to become a state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English:
from the Middle English female personal name Sis(se), Cisse, a pet form of Cecily (see Sisley ) + -son.
variant of Syson, a habitational name from Syston (Leicestershire), from a short form of an Old English personal name such as Sigehǣth or Sigefrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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