Brief Life History of Ruth
When Ruth Dillon was born on 4 March 1770, in Loudoun, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Amos Dillon, was 25 and her mother, Jane Dodd, was 26. She married Thomas McCabe on 14 November 1788, in Loudoun, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 20 September 1836, in Tilton, Fleming, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 66.
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1788 · The First Presidential Election
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.
Name Meaning
English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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