When Penelope Gibbs was born in 1788, in Madison, Virginia, United States, her father, Capt. Edward Churchill Gibbs, was 32 and her mother, Mary Judith Richardson, was 38. She married Richard Rixey on 2 November 1815. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She died in 1872, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84.
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The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: from the common medieval personal name Gibb (see Gibb ), a pet form of Gilbert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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