Brief Life History of Mabel
When Mabel Bishop was born on 6 January 1728, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Daniel Bishop, was 27 and her mother, Abigail Dudley, was 23. She married Robert Hannah on 4 July 1758, in Bethlehem, Pomperaug Plantation, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
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- Mabel Bishop, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Marriage of Mabel Hannah and Hugh Hannah Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut 16 October 1762
- Mabel in entry for Sarah Hannah, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
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.
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
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 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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