When Lewis Lodge was born about 1760, in Edgecombe, North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Lewis Lodge, was 23 and his mother, Mary Reddick, was 21. He married Martha Sasnett in November 1782, in Tarboro, Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 27 September 1829, in Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 70.
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Built on August 26, 1767, the Tryon Palace became the capitol building for North Carolina. The building was named after William Tryon a British officer and colonial official.
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English: topographic name from Middle English loge, logge, lug(g)e (Old French loge) ‘hut, temporary shelter, workshop, occupational cottage (for a gamekeeper, bridge keeper, etc)’. It may have referred to a herdsman's hut and by extension to the cattle farm that was managed from it. Early examples of this surname in East Anglia and Wilts may alternatively have alluded to a forester's or gamekeeper's hut.
History: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the influential US senator from MA, was born in Boston, the only son of John Ellerton Lodge, a prosperous merchant and owner of swift clipper ships engaged in commerce with China, one of several Lodges who emigrated from England in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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