When Margaret Hodge was born on 5 June 1720, in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, John Hodge Sr, was 25 and her mother, Mary Steele, was 21. She married Joel Thrall on 10 November 1738, in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died in August 1813, in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Torrington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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In 1732 the Colony of Connecticut granted to Windsor, Connecticut several townships including Torrington. Ebenezer Lyman Jr. of Durham purchased land from one of the Windsor proprietors and in 1735 became Torrington's first settler. The second area to be settled was the eastern hill known as Torringford. In October 1740, Torrington was given permission to incorporate as a town and organize its own town government and ecclesiastical society. Significant industrial growth began to occur here in 1813 when Frederick Wolcott erected a woolen mill. The small industrial village that grew up around the mill was called Wolcottville for many decades and is now the central business district of Torrington.
Torrington, in Litchfield County, is located in northwest Connecticut on the Naugatuck River. Originally called Mast Swamp for the pines harvested for use as ship masts, Torrington was settled in 1735, incorporated in 1740, and chartered as a city in 1923. In the years before the Civil War, Torringford, a section of Torrington, was a transportation center for the Underground Railroad.
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English (Norfolk and Suffolk): from the Middle English personal name Hogge, a rhyming pet form of Roger . In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's cook, ‘highte Hogge of Ware’, is invoked ‘Now tell on, Roger …’. Since Middle English spellings of the personal name are often impossible to distinguish from the nickname Hog(ge) ‘hog’, some early examples may be variants of Hogg .
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