When Martha Elizabeth Lester was born in 1797, in Union, Union, South Carolina, United States, her father, James Daneford Lester, was 44 and her mother, Mrs Elizabeth Asbell, was 38. She married Basil Darby about 1810, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She died in April 1854, in Yalobusha, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 57.
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The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Mississippi is the 20th state.
English: habitational name from Leicester, which is recorded as Ligeraceastre in the 10th century. The placename derives from an Old English folk name Legore ‘the dwellers by the river Legor (a lost river name)’ + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Lestre in Normandy.
English and Scottish: variant of Lister .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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