Brief Life History of Michael Land
When Michael Land Bright was born on 21 January 1786, in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Michael Bright Jr., was 26 and his mother, Louisa Land, was 25. He married Mary Polly Mauris on 16 March 1820, in Greene, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in September 1860, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Michael Bright, "United States Census, 1850"
- Michael Bright, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- find a grave - burial unproven
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World Events (8)
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1796 · Tennessee Becomes a State
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English: usually a nickname from Middle English bright ‘bright, good-looking, fresh-faced’ (Old English beorht ‘bright, shining’).
English: perhaps occasionally from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Briht, Beorht, from a short form of any of several Old English personal names of which beorht was the first element, such as Beorhtrīc ‘bright’ + ‘powerful’. Compare Bert .
Americanized form of German Brecht .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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