Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Black was born on 17 May 1767, in Albemarle Parish, Sussex, Virginia, United States, his father, James Black Sr., was 26 and his mother, Eleanor Boyle, was 28. He married Margaret Woods on 21 August 1793, in Madison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Henderson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 May 1855, in Macon, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Independence Cemetery, Poplar Springs, Henderson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Thomas Black, "United States Census, 1830"
- Thomas Black, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Thomas Black, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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