Chauncy P. Fitch

Brief Life History of Chauncy P.

When Chauncy P. Fitch was born on 17 January 1771, in Peagscomsueck, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jabez Fitch, was 41 and his mother, Lydia Huntington, was 35. He married Elizabeth Sheldon about 1801. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 1 January 1823, in Sheldon, Franklin, Vermont, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Sheldon Cemetery, Sheldon, Franklin, Vermont, United States.

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Family Time Line

Chauncy P. Fitch
1771–1823
Elizabeth Sheldon
1783–1815
Marriage: about 1801
Jabez Huntington Fitch
1801–1827
Samuel Sheldon Fitch Sr.
1801–1876
Lucy Louise Fitch
1803–
Rev. John Ashley Fitch
1804–1874
Louisa Ashley Fitch
1806–1877
Lucretia Fitch
1808–
Elizabeth Sheldon Fitch
1812–1870
Chauncey Fitch Jr.
1814–

Sources (16)

  • Chancey Fitch, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Chauncy Fitch, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Fitch in entry for Henry Fitch, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"

World Events (8)

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776 · The Declaration to the King

"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""

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.

Name Meaning

from Old French fiche, perhaps ‘pointed implement for fixing or transfixing something or someone’ (such as a lance?), a derivative of Old French fichier ‘to fix, fasten, pin on, stick into, pierce’. Compare Modern French fiche ‘peg, pin’. Reaney remarks that ‘as Hugh Malet is said to have abandoned for a time his nickname ‘little hammer’ in favor of Fichet (see Mallet ), fiche must have been used of a pointed weapon, a spear or lance, and Fitch and Fitchett (see Fitchett ) of a spearman or a knight famous for his exploits with the lance’. Use of Fiche as a personal name is possibly implied by diminutive personal name forms such as Fechet (see Fitchett ) and Fechel, attested in Fechel de Fercalahn, 1225–50. The latter is perhaps the source of the now extinct English surname Fetchell.

occasionally a variant of Fitz .

English:

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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