When Rebecca Kibbe was born on 13 March 1727, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Edward Kibbe Jr., was 32 and her mother, Rebecca Elmer, was 36. She married Reuben Chapin on 5 November 1746, in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 31 March 1762, in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 35, and was buried in Center Cemetery, 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.
Created on October 9, 1751 from Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford Counties
English: according to Reaney this is a nickname from an unattested Old English word cybbe meaning ‘clumsy’ or ‘thickset’. Reaney's speculation is apparently based on taking the Middle English word kibble ‘cudgel’ as a diminutive of an unattested Old English word. Corresponding personal names have been postulated for the placenames Kibworth (‘enclosure of a man called Cybba’) and Kibblesworth (‘enclosure of a man called Cybbel’); so, in theory, the surname could be a reflex of these Old English personal names.
North German: nickname for a cantankerous person, from Middle Low German, Middle High German kiven ‘to quarrel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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