When Rachel Grider was born on 4 February 1757, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Frederick Grider Sr., was 43 and her mother, Catherine Brake, was 38. She married Samuel Smith in 1775, in North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 22 November 1852, in Cumberland, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 95.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
North Carolina is the 12th state.
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Americanized form of South German Greiter, itself a variant or an altered form of South German Greuter and Swiss German Grütter or Grüter (see Grueter ). Compare Greider , Gryder and Kreider .
History: The ancestors of many of the American Griders were Mennonites from Switzerland who, because of religious persecution, fled to the Palatinate in Germany and later, in the beginning of the 18th century, emigrated to PA (see Kreider ).
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