When Mary Ann "Polly" Brinson was born on 30 October 1785, in Craven, North Carolina, United States, her father, Rev. James Jesse Brinson Jr., was 24 and her mother, Patience Purser, was 24. She married Christopher Columbus Koonce on 27 January 1806, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 12 November 1825, in Claiborne, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Old Saline Baptist Church Cemetery, Saline, Bienville, Louisiana, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Briençun in northern France. Compare Branson .
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