Brief Life History of Mary Whittington
When Mary Whittington Stevenson was born on 4 August 1782, in Worcester Parish, Worcester, Maryland, United States, her father, Benjamin Stevenson, was 36 and her mother, Mary Cox, was 31. She married John Long Jr on 22 October 1805, in Pisgah Church, Livingston, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Gallatin Township, Clay, Missouri, United States in 1850. She died on 25 June 1852, in Missouri, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Little Shoal Cemetery, Liberty Township, Clay, Missouri, United States.
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- Mary Long in household of John Long, "United States Census, 1850"
- Mary "Polly" Stevenson, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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World Events (7)
1783 · A Free America
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.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Steven, Stephen (see Steven ) + -son. This surname is also very common in northern Ireland (especially Antrim and Down), where it has been interchangeable with Steenson and Stinson . In North America, this surname has also absorbed various European cognates, such as Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen ; see also Stevens .
Scottish: variant of Stevenston, a habitational name from Stevenston (Ayrshire), Stevenson in Newlands (Peeblesshire), or Stevenson in Haddington (East Lothian). The placename in each case derives from the personal name Steven + Older Scots toun ‘farmstead, settlement’.
English: habitational name from Stevenstone (Devon), meaning ‘Stephen's farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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