When Nancy R. Allan was born on 1 August 1781, in Virginia, United States, her father, James Allan, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Clendennen, was 21. She married Edmund Slayden on 20 October 1803, in Bardstown, Nelson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States in 1850. She died on 7 November 1857, in Madisonville, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hopkins, Kentucky, United States.
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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.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Scottish and northern English: variant of Allen . This is the more common form of the name in Scotland and northern England. See also McAllen .
History: An early bearer of this surname in North America was William Allan, a British soldier who took his family to the newly founded city of Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1749. His son John (1746–1805) was a Revolutionary soldier who eventually (1783) founded the settlement of Allan's Island, Passamaquoddy Bay, ME.
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