When Catherine Wing was born on 8 October 1779, in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United States, her father, Giles Wing, was 24 and her mother, Mary Jane Elizabeth Cornell, was 24. She married Stephen Pettis on 1 January 1796, in Kingsbury, Washington, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 22 November 1812, in Alburg, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Alburg Center Cemetery, Alburg, Grand Isle, Vermont, United States.
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Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Weng (Old West Scandinavian Wenge, perhaps originally a nickname from vengi ‘pillow, cushion’).
English and Scottish: habitational name from either Wing in Buckinghamshire or Wing in Rutland. The Buckinghamshire placename probably means ‘the people of Wiwa’, from an Old English personal name Wiwa + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. The Rutland placename and probably derives from Old Norse vengi ‘field’.
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 榮, see Rong 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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