When Lucina Stebbins was born on 12 September 1780, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Capt Phineas Stebbins, was 41 and her mother, Anna Chaffee, was 41. She married Luther Stebbins on 1 March 1803, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 18 January 1848, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Hampden, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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.
English (Middlesex and Essex): habitational name from Stebbing (Essex). The placename means ‘the people of a man called Stybba’ or ‘the people of the tree stumps’, from an Old English personal name Stybba or Old English stybb ‘tree stump’ + the groupname suffix -ingas.
History: Edward Stebbins was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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