When Robert Gatewood was born about 1724, in Essex, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Gatewood, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Dudley, was 34. He married Mary Haltom in 1739, in North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 25 May 1790, in Anson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 67.
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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.
North Carolina is the 12th state.
English: variant of Gatward, derived from either an occupational name for a goatherd (Middle English gate-werde, Old English gātweard), or from an occupational name for a gate keeper (Middle English gateward, Old English ʒeatweard, dialect gātward). This surname is now rare in Britain.
History: The Gatewood family has been established in Essex County, VA, and Spotsylvania since the 17th century.
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