When Jane Elizabeth Clay was born on 1 January 1776, in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States, her father, Eleazer Clay, was 31 and her mother, Nancy Jane Apperson, was 24. She married Edward Trabue on 19 October 1797, in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 8 June 1845, in New London, Ralls, Missouri, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Barkley Cemetery, Spencer Township, Ralls, Missouri, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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 (Midlands and Yorkshire): from Old English clǣg ‘clay’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of clay soil, a habitational name for someone who lived in a district known as (the) Clay, such as the one in east Notinghamshire, or as a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a clay pit (see Clayman ).
Americanized form of German Klee .
History: The relatively common English name Clay had several American forebears in the 18th century. Henry Clay, born in Hanover, VA, in 1777, secretary of state for President John Quincy Adams, was descended from English ancestors who came to VA shortly after the founding of Jamestown. The revolutionary war officer Joseph Clay, also a member of the Continental Congress, was a native of Yorkshire, England, who emigrated to GA in 1760 and was a founder of the University of Georgia.
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