Brief Life History of James Henry
When James Henry Knox was born on 5 June 1775, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, Lieutenant Samuel Knox Sr, was 28 and his mother, Mary Luckie, was 19. He married Cynthia Ann Luckey about 1800, in Jackson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1802, in Jackson, Georgia, United States, at the age of 27.
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
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.
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Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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