Stamford, Connecticut, USA
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Where is Stamford, Connecticut, USA? Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Stamford was known as Rippowam by the Native American inhabitants to the region, and the very first European settlers to the area also referred to it that way. The name was later changed to Stamford after a town in Lincolnshire, England. The deed to Stamford was signed on 1 July 1640 between Captain Turner of the New Haven Colony and Chief Ponus. The land that now forms the city of Stamford was bought for 12 coats, 12 hoes, 12 ratchets, 12 glasses, 12 knives, four kettles, and four fathoms of white wampum. The deed was renegotiated several times until 1700 when the territory was given up by the Native American inhabitants for a more substantial sum of money.
In 1641, Rippowam was settled by 29 Puritan families who had chosen to leave Wethersfield. The group had formed "The Rippowam Company" and contracted with the New Haven Colony to settle the Rippowam area.[2] Hence initially the settlement was a part of the New Haven Colony, as was Greenwich to the west. The name of the settlement was changed to Stamford on April 6, 1642.
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Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Glimpses of Greenwich, Stamford, and Norwalk
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Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Harbor Scene looking South, Stamford, Conn.
Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Massee School for Boys, Stamford, Conn.
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52 minutes from New York on Long Island Sound
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1819 - Stamford
Stamford, and extensive and populous maritime post township, is situated on Long Island sound, in...Read MORE...
Stamford, and extensive and populous maritime post township, is situated on Long Island sound, in...Read MORE...
1900 - LIGHTNING IN A MANSION Bolt Tears Two Great Holes In Roof of the EdificeWHILE INMATES SLEEP SOUNDLY
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1904 - STAMFORD TOWN HALL BURNEDFire for a Time Threatened Business Section of the City.
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1906
Stamford, a city in Stamford township (town), Fairfield co., Conn., on Long Island Sound and on the ...Read MORE...
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1908 - Saved From FireStamford, Conn., March 24. - Curly is only a "husky" and until recently he trod the frozen...Read MORE...
1911 - KILLED BY ELECTRIC SWITCH.Engineer Tries to Divert Current and Falls from Cab.
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1913 - FIVE KILLED IN BOSTON EXPRESS REAR-END CRASHScore Injured as Second Section Smashes Into First at Stamford.
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Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
John BELL
(16 January 1681, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 12 April 1730, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Jonathan BELL
(September 1641, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 11 March 1699, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Jonathan BROWN
(18 December 1762, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 22 January 1840, Danbury, Connecticut, USA)
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Nathan DAVENPORT
(17 August 1768, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 18 May 1817, Wilton, Connecticut, USA)
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Mary JENNER
(4 October 1648, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - , )
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James S. KEELER
(1804, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 26 March 1879, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA)
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Isaac Quintard LEAKE
(5 March 1782, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 16 December 1863, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
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Isaac LOUNSBURY
(5 June 1787, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 26 January 1868, Williamston, Ingham, Michigan, USA)
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Samuel OLIVER
(14 April 1662, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 12 August 1723, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA)
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Ancestors Who Died Here
 
Francis BELL
(1614, , England (United Kingdom) - 8 January 1690, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Francis Wyandanch BELL
(11 November 1611, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England - 8 January 1689, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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John BELL
(16 January 1681, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 12 April 1730, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Jonathan BELL
(September 1641, Stamford, Connecticut, USA - 11 March 1699, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Thomas D. BISHOP
(1840, , New York, USA - 27 April 1870, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Joanna BOYSE
(1616, , England (United Kingdom) - 8 November 1681, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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James CAVEN
(1844, , New York, USA - 9 August 1880, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Rebecca Elizabeth EBBONNE?
(1618, , Connecticut, USA - 17 May 1684, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Elizabeth HUNTINGTON
(1 November 1725, Norwich, Connecticut, USA - 17 December 1773, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Susanna PIERSON
(10 December 1652, Branford, Connecticut, USA - 4 January 1707, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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George TURANEC
(abt. 1867, , Czechoslovakia (Bohemia) (Czech Republic) - 10 June 1956, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Rebecca UNKNOWN
(1618, , England (United Kingdom) - 17 May 1684, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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Sanford VAIL
(1873, , New York, USA - 31 August 1893, Stamford, Connecticut, USA)
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