Martha Ann Brittain was born on 30 January 1705, in Richmond, New York Colony, British Colonial America. She had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with John Wood. She died in 1768, in Granville District, North Carolina, British Colonial America, at the age of 63.
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The British, Dutch, and German settlers fought with the Tuscarora Native Americans, from September 22, 1711- February 11, 1715, in North Carolina.
North Carolina is the location of Cape Hatteras, sometimes called the Graveyard of the Atlantic- many shipwrecks have occurred nearby.
July 25, 1729, North Carolina became a royal colony, when the colony was sold to King George II.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Anglo-Norman French Bretagne, Bretaign(e) ‘Brittany’. Some of the modern forms are from the Middle English Brytane, Brittan ‘Breton’; compare Breton .
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