Brief Life History of Eliphalet
When Eliphalet Flint was born on 6 June 1781, in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Flint, was 28 and his mother, Mary Phelps, was 24. He had at least 5 sons and 4 daughters with Julia Miller. He died on 16 March 1860, in Richland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Springfield Township, Richland, Ohio, United States.
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- Eliphalet Flint, "United States Census, 1850"
- Eliphalet Flint, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English and German: topographic name for someone who lived near a significant outcrop of flint (from Old and Middle English, Low German flint), or a nickname for a hard-hearted or physically tough individual, metaphorically as hard as flint.
Welsh: habitational name from Flint in Clwyd, which gave its name to the old county of Flintshire.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Flinte ‘shotgun’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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