When Rebecca Elizabeth Whitworth was born on 17 January 1774, in Lunenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Whitworth II, was 47 and her mother, Elizabeth Southerland, was 47. She married Isaac Stone in 1793, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States in 1850. She died on 28 August 1861, in Henderson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Hart Cemetery, Jacks Creek, Chester, Tennessee, United States.
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"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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 (Lancashire, Yorkshire, North Midlands): habitational name from Whitworth in Rochdale (Lancashire), and possibly also from Whitworth (Durham). The placenames derive from the Old English personal name Hwīta or Old English hwīt ‘white’ + worth ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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