When Mary "Polly" Peeples was born on 4 August 1794, her father, Drury Peeples, was 37 and her mother, Lucy Wilburn, was 39. She married James Peebles on 16 July 1812, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 25 May 1833, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 38.
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"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."
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Scottish: variant of Peebles . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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