Elizabeth Martin
1782–1852 (Age 70)
Caroline, Virginia, United States
The Life of Elizabeth
Elizabeth Martin was born in 1782, in Caroline, Virginia, United States as the daughter of Capt George W. Martin. She died after 1852, at the age of 71.
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Elizabeth Martin
1782–1852
Matthew Mays
1780–
Spouse & Children
1782–1852Female
- Matthew Mays
1780–Male
Parents & Siblings
1754–1817Male
siblings
(16)
1782–1821Female
1782–1852Female
1784–1864Female
1785–Male
1786–1850Female
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World Events (3)
1783 · A Free America
Age 1
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Age 4
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · Becomes the 10th state
Age 6
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
Name Meaning
1 English, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, German, Czech, Slovak, Spanish (Martín), Italian (Venice), etc.: from a personal name (Latin Martinus, a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’). This was borne by a famous 4th-century saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. As a North American surname, this form has absorbed many cognates from other European forms.2 English: habitational name from any of several places so called, principally in Hampshire, Lincolnshire, and Worcestershire, named in Old English as ‘settlement by a lake’ (from mere or mær ‘pool’, ‘lake’ + tūn ‘settlement’) or as ‘settlement by a boundary’ (from (ge)mære ‘boundary’ + tūn ‘settlement’). The place name has been charged from Marton under the influence of the personal name Martin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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