When Eliza Ann McClung was born in 1805, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, her father, William McClung, was 75 and her mother, Rebecca Linn, was 74. She died on 18 October 1861, in her hometown, at the age of 56.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Treaty of Ghent was signed on 1814, ending the War of 1812. One of the signers was James Bayard of Delaware.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Scottish or Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Luinge ‘son of Lunge’, a personal name probably meaning ‘seafarer’, although the literal meaning is ‘ship’, from Latin navis longa.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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