When Mary Smithwick was born in 1672, in Chowan, North Carolina, British Colonial America, her father, Hugh Smithwick, was 53 and her mother, Elizabeth Windley, was 52. She married Thomas Gregory about 1691, in North Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1761, in her hometown, at the age of 89.
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The British, Dutch, and German settlers fought with the Tuscarora Native Americans, from September 22, 1711- February 11, 1715, in North Carolina.
North Carolina is the location of Cape Hatteras, sometimes called the Graveyard of the Atlantic- many shipwrecks have occurred nearby.
July 25, 1729, North Carolina became a royal colony, when the colony was sold to King George II.
English: habitational name from Smethwick in Staffordshire, Smethwick Green near Brereton Heath (Cheshire), or a lost place called Smithwick in Southover (Sussex). The placename means ‘the farm of the smith(s)’, from Old English smith ‘smith’ + wīc ‘dwelling, specialized farm’. This surname has also been established in southern Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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