When Clarrissa Buell was born on 25 October 1805, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Zephaniah Buell, was 22 and her mother, Clarissa Shelley, was 22.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
Welsh: variant of Bowell .
North German (Büll): unexplained. Compare Bull .
History: William Buell came from Wales to Windsor, CT, in or c. 1639.
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