When Rachel Bentley was born in 1747, in Amelia, Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Bentley, was 28 and her mother, Mary Efford Weldon, was 27. She married John Hyde Saunders Jr on 25 May 1775, in Amelia, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Benton, Tennessee, United States in 1850. She died on 5 March 1821, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 74.
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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.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
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