When Peter Sunderland Jr. was born in 1779, in Brooke, Stafford, Virginia, United States, his father, Peter Sunderland, was 42 and his mother, Catherine Holman, was 33. He married Mary Ely on 2 March 1802, in Belmont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He died after 22 December 1812.
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On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
English: habitational name primarily from High Sunderland in Northowram, Halifax (Yorkshire), but occasionally from other places so called, for example in Durham, Cumberland, Lancashire, and Northumberland. The placenames derive from Old English sundor-land ‘land set apart for some special purpose, private land, detached land’ (sundor ‘asunder, apart’ + land ‘land’). Compare Sunderlin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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