When Mary Jane Ponton was born about 1822, in Nelson, Virginia, United States, her father, John Ponton, was 39 and her mother, Jane Fortune, was 32. She married Edward Cliff Wood on 10 October 1843, in Nelson, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Scottish and English: habitational name, probably from Great and Little Ponton in Lincolnshire, perhaps named from an obscure Old English word pamp ‘hill’ or panne ‘pan’ (in a transferred topographic sense ‘depression, hollow’) + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘enclosure’.
English: occasionally a variant of Ponting .
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