Brief Life History of Joanna
When Joanna Poole was born about 1720, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States, her father, George Poole, was 22 and her mother, Elizabeth Rogers, was 22. She married James Young before 1744, in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States.
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781
The American Revolution ended with the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pol(e), polle, poul(e) ‘pool, pond’ (Old English pōl). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a pool, or habitative, from a place so named.
English: variant of Paul .
Possibly an Americanized form of German Puhl or Pfuhl(e) (see Pool 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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