Brief Life History of John
When John Land was born on 19 February 1744, in Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Robert Land, was 24 and his mother, Mary Anne Carter Webb, was 20. He married Mary Sumpter about 1764, in Louisa, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cumberland, Virginia, United States in 1780 and Buckingham, Virginia, United States in 1783. He died in 1814, in Prince Edward, Virginia, United States, at the age of 70.
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- John Land, "Virginia, Births and Christenings, 1853-1917"
- 2 May 1792, Deed in Sussex Co VA, John Land + Wife to Thos Colements, Book G, p. 715 (Connection to Buckingham Co VA)
- 1783 Personal Property Tax, John Land, Buckingham Co VA - Qualifies as Patriotic Service
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1758 · Mount Vernon
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Dutch: topographic name from Old English, Middle Dutch land, Middle High German lant ‘land, territory’. This had more specialized senses in the Middle Ages, being used to denote the countryside as opposed to a town or an estate.
English: topographic name from Middle English launde ‘glade’ (Old French land), or a habitational name from a place called with this word, such as Launde in Leicestershire or Laund in Yorkshire.
Norwegian: habitational name from any of the three farmsteads so named, from Old Norse land ‘land, territory’ (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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