When Rosanna Holcomb was born about 1776, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Timothy Holcomb, was 21 and her mother, Elizabeth Griffin, was 22. She had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters with Leonard Wade. She died in 1842, at the age of 67.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (Surrey and Sussex): habitational name from any of several places called Holcombe (Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset), from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + cumb ‘valley’.
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