When Catherine Stringfellow was born in 1735, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, William Stringfellow, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Dorothy Elkins, was 30. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Mason Colvin Jr.. She died in Virginia, United States.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
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English: occupational name from Middle English string-felagh ‘string-fellow, man who works at a string-hearth’. This was the hearth or furnace at which iron was heated for its second working. A 1547 document from south Yorkshire defines the string-fellow's duties: ‘the stringefelloe wages, for layeinge the stone and breakeinge and feyinge of synders and breakeinge of the blowme and hewinge’. Thornhill and Ecclesfield were two of several iron-working districts in Yorkshire. See also Stringer .
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