When Elizabeth Stonestreet was born on 22 August 1780, in Virginia, United States, her father, Butler Edelen Stonestreet, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Stonestreet Norton, was 21. She married Nathaniel B. Brown about 1801, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 25 October 1850, in McLean, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Floydsburg Cemetery, Crestwood, Oldham, Kentucky, United States.
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The American Revolution ended with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English (Sussex): from Middle English stan, ston ‘stone’ (Old English stān) + stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived by a Roman or paved road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Stone Street (Kent, Suffolk). Early bearers in Sussex are presumably associated with the Roman road from London Bridge to Colchester, known from the medieval period as Stane Street, and those in Essex with the Roman road from Braughing (Hertfordshire) to Colchester (Essex), also called Stane Street.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Steinstrass, a topographic name for someone living on a paved street or a Roman street or a habitational name from a place so named in the Rhineland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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