Brief Life History of Naomi
When Naomi Greenland was born in 1733, in Deercreek, Harford, Maryland, United States, her father, Richard Greenland, was 14 and her mother, Betty Davis, was 14. She married Joseph Hurford on 20 October 1763, in Deercreek, Harford, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1810, at the age of 77.
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- Joseph Hurford family in the U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, New Garden, Chester, Penn Births & Burials
- Naomi Greenland & Joseph Hurford in the Maryland, Compiled Marriage Index, 1634-1777
- Naomi Hurford in entry for Samuel Hurford, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
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1773
Historical Boundaries: 1774: Harford, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Harford, Maryland, United States
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
Maryland is the 7th state.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) green meadow’, Middle English grene, grein + land, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Groenland and possibly also of German Grönland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or hamlets so named, with the same meaning as 1 above, from Dutch groen, Low German grön ‘green’ + land ‘land’. The surname Grönland is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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