Brief Life History of Silas
When Silas Crowell lll was born on 4 September 1771, in Morristown, Morris Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States, his father, Seth Crowell Jr., was 27 and his mother, Hannah Parkhurst, was 25. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Agnes Roberts. He died on 24 May 1814, in Green Village, Chatham Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 42.
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- Silas Crowell, "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
- Silas Crowell, "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988"
- Silas Crowel in entry for Charles P. Crowel, "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988"
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1775
"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1783 · A Free America
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire), or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.
Americanized form of German Grauel .
Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook, claw’, a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’), with such a device depicted on the signboard.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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