When Martha Thrasher was born on 12 September 1781, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, Benjamin Thrasher, was 28 and her mother, Martha Ridgely, was 31. She married John Lyeth on 20 October 1803, in Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Martinsburg, Berkeley, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Berkeley, Virginia, United States in 1860. She died in March 1870, at the age of 88.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: occupational name from Middle English thressher ‘thresher’, a derivative of Old English therscan, threscan, thryscan ‘to thresh’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Drescher .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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