Brief Life History of Luman
When Luman Stone was born on 21 July 1779, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Captain Aaron Stone, was 37 and his mother, Lois Dudley, was 34. He married Rhoda Northway about 1809, in Hampton, Windham, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. He died on 15 March 1855, in North Madison, East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rockland Cemetery, Madison, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Luman Stone, "United States Census, 1850"
- Luman Stone, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
- Luman Stone in entry for Rhoda Stone, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
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1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.
Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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