Brief Life History of Calvin
When Calvin Hall Sr was born on 17 December 1759, in East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States, his father, Captain Jabez Hall, was 40 and his mother, Hannah Lyon, was 33. He married Mercy Barnes in August 1782, in East Hampton, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1831. He died on 17 November 1833, in Utica, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Utica, Oneida, New York, United States.
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- Calvin Hall, "Find A Grave Index"
- Calvin Hall, "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872"
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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.
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.
Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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