When George Washington Sones was born on 4 November 1782, in Richmond Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Peter Johan Sones, was 26 and his mother, Elizabetha Anna Merkel, was 25. He married Ann Lowe about 1802, in Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1840 and Davidson Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1840. He died in May 1867, in Davidson Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Sonestown, Davidson Township, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, 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: 1795: Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (Suffolk):
perhaps an altered form of Soames; see Somes .
variant of Soane, with post-medieval excrescent -s (see Son ). The -o- in Middle English and early modern English son(e) is a conventional spelling of /u/ before an n. This /u/ became /ʌ/ in Standard English, hence the current pronunciation of Son. If /u/ was lengthened it became /o:/ in Middle English, and then /u:/ in modern English, hence the occasional spelling Soon. In some speakers' dialects, however, it seems that Middle English /u/ may have been lowered to /ɔ/ and lengthened to /ɔ:/, becoming modern English /əu/ represented in the spelling Soane. At any rate, Soon and Soane (also Sone) appear together in the same counties and are presumably alternative pronunciations of the same name.
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