When Mary Ann Peters was born about 1780, in Maryland, United States, her father, John Samuel Peters, was 24 and her mother, Comfort Anderson, was 23. She married Isaac Medley on 7 March 1797, in Evangelical Reformed Church, Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died after 10 June 1860, in Clarksburg, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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In 1781, Maryland donated land to be used for part of Washington, D. C.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English, Scottish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . This surname (mainly of German origin) is also found in Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and some other European countries. In North America it has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, such as Albanian Pjetraj and Pjetrushi, patronymics from the personal name Pjetër ‘Peter’ and its pet form Pjetrush; see also below and also examples at Peterson .
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Mac Pheadair ‘son of Peter’.
Americanized form of Dutch and North German Pieters .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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