Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Colegrove was born on 24 November 1775, in Richmond, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Oliver Colegrove, was 67 and her mother, Esther Tefft, was 32. She married Arnold Barber about 1797. She died in 1844, in Pomfret, Chautauqua, New York, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Laona Cemetery, Pomfret, Chautauqua, New York, United States.
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- Mary Coldgrove, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Laona Cemetery, Pomfret, New York
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English (Oxfordshire): variant of Colgrove .
Probably an Americanized form of German Kohlgrube, a habitational name from any of twelve places so named, probably from Middle High German kol ‘coal’ + gruobe ‘pit’, or an altered form of Kohlgraf, an occupational name for an overseer of the coal trade.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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