When Lydia Elvira Holcomb was born on 23 October 1774, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Benajah Holcomb Sr, was 37 and her mother, Lydia Forward, was 28. She married Bela Moses Tuller in 1794. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 27 March 1848, in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Worthington, Franklin, Ohio, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English (Surrey and Sussex): habitational name from any of several places called Holcombe (Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, Somerset), from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + cumb ‘valley’.
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