Elihu Briley Sr was born in 1770, in New Hanover, North Carolina, United States as the son of William Richard Briley II and Ruth Jones. He married Ann Eliza Drupiney Nelson on 3 December 1848, in Pitt, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870. He died in 1877, in Pitt, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 107.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
North Carolina is the 12th state.
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Brólaigh, see Brawley .
English: habitational name from Brilley in Bridstow (Herefordshire), a local variant of the name that usually develops as Bromley .
In some cases also an Americanized form of Slovenian Brilej: nickname derived from dialect briliti ‘to shave’, hence apparently denoting a barber.
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