When Cornelius Westfall Jr. was born in 1759, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Cornelius Abel Bogard Westfall, was 38 and his mother, Elisabeth Westvall, was 34. He married Elizabeth Helmick on 13 January 1796, in Randolph, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He died about 1844, in Randolph, Virginia, United States, at the age of 86.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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.
Americanized form of German Westfahl and Westphal .
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