When Helen Musick was born on 17 April 1744, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, Ephraim Musick, was 21 and her mother, Isabella Nancy Roy, was 17. She married Edward Jenkins in 1774, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. She died in 1795, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 51.
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Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
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.
English: from an older spelling of music, presumably applied as a nickname to a musically talented man. See also Music .
Germanized form of Sorbian Mužyk or Mužik: nickname, probably for a man of short stature, from Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian diminutives of muž ‘man’. Compare 5 below.
Americanized form of Serbian and Croatian (and possibly also Bosniak) Musić or Mušić, Slovenian Mušič (see Music ).
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