Brief Life History of Susannah
When Susannah Christopher was born in 1747, in Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, David Christopher, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Grigg, was 21. She married John Overton Sr on 10 January 1772, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died after 25 September 1808, in Virginia, United States.
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- Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800
- Susannah Christopher in entry for John Overton, "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989"
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Name Meaning
English, German, West Indian (mainly Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, and British Virgin Islands), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the English and German personal name Christopher, from Greek Christophoros ‘Christ-bearing’ (see Christ 1). This was borne by a rather obscure 3rd-century Christian martyr. His name was relatively common among early Christians, who desired to bear Jesus Christ metaphorically with them in their daily lives. Subsequently, the name was explained by a folk etymology according to which the saint carried the infant Christ across a ford and so became the patron saint of travelers. Despite the widespread veneration and depiction of this saint, this was not a very common personal name in medieval England, and may in some instances have a habitational origin, for someone living for example in Saint Christopher parish (Saint Christopher le Stocks, London). In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed the German variant Christoffer and cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Kristóf and Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Krištof (see Kristof ). The usual German form of the name is Christoph .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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