When Peter Chandler Virgin was born on 23 July 1782, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Ebenezer Virgin, was 47 and his mother, Dorcas Lovejoy, was 42. He married Sally Keyes on 24 July 1813, in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rumford, Oxford, Maine, United States for about 10 years and Maine, United States in 1870. He died on 8 April 1871, at the age of 88, and was buried in Rumford Point Cemetery, Rumford Point, Rumford, Oxford, Maine, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: status name from Middle English virgin(e), virgen ‘young, unmarried woman’ (Old French virgin(e), virgene), all variants of virge from Latin virgo. See Virgo .
Swedish: probably a cognate of German name in 3 below. However, at least in one case this is, according to family tradition, a habitational name derived from the name of the village Verchen in northern Germany.
German: variant of Vergin .
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