Brief Life History of Blake
When Blake Bridges was born in 1776, in Johnston, North Carolina, United States, his father, Benjamin Bridges, was 39 and his mother, Rebecca Johnson, was 35. He married Pearcy Peacock in 1816. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Washington, Georgia, United States in 1820. He died in 1826, at the age of 50.
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- Blake Bridges, "United States Census, 1820"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1784
Historical Boundaries: 1784: Washington, Georgia, United States
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Bridge . The -s generally represents the genitive case, but may occasionally be a plural. In some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (Brugge) in Belgium, meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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