Brief Life History of Anne
When Anne Smedley was born on 11 October 1768, in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, George Smedley, was 43 and her mother, Patience Mercer, was 37. She married George Matlack in 1787, in Goshen Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 26 January 1847, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Access to book Genealogy of the Smedley Family compiled by Gilbert Cope
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
English (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire): habitational name, mostly from Smithley in Wombwell (Yorkshire) but also from Smedley (Lancashire). The placenames probably mean ‘wood or woodland clearing of the smiths’, from Old English smitha, genitive plural form of smith ‘smith’, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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