When PVT Nathaniel Vance was born in 1762, in Surry, North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Vance, was 36 and his mother, Alice Aley Carr, was 34. He married Mary Dunbar McTier on 22 March 1788. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 12 November 1812, in Laurens, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Vance Family Cemetery, Clinton, Laurens, South Carolina, United States.
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Built on August 26, 1767, the Tryon Palace became the capitol building for North Carolina. The building was named after William Tryon a British officer and colonial official.
On October 25, 1774, the Edenton Tea Party took place. It was the first organized women's protest. They put their cups down and refused to buy any tea.
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Scottish: apparently a spelling pronunciation of Vans, a misreading of Vaus (see Vause ), in which -u- has been miscopied as -n-. If true, it is probably limited to the Vans or Vaus family of Wigtownshire. It may be this surname that appears in Ireland from the early 17th century, especially in Ulster, but it could alternatively be the English name in 2 below.
English: if not a transcription error for Vause (a surname well evidenced in Warwickshire and Leicestershire), a variant of Vann , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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