Col. Robert Troup was born on 19 August 1756, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. He married Jennet Goelet in February 1787, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He registered for military service in 1777. He died on 14 January 1832, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
Scottish (eastern): habitational name from a place in the parish of Gamrie, near Banff. The placename is unexplained, perhaps a Pictish cognate of Welsh trwp ‘vessel, dish, basin’.
Possibly also English, a metathesized form of Thorpe .
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