Brief Life History of Alice
When Alice Pennington was born in January 1759, in Rappahannock, Virginia, United States, her father, Capt. Isaac Pennington Sr., was 43 and her mother, Mary Williams, was 38. She married Gholson Stapp on 23 July 1782, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died in January 1789, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 30.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Alice Pennington - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Alice Pennington
- Ailes Peniton, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Captain Isaac John Pennington, 'MyHeritage Family Trees'
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · Battle of Sullivan's Island
On June 28, 1776, the Battle of Sullivan's Island takes place on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. Since it is so close to Charelston, the battle is sometimes referred to as the First Siege of Charleston. This is the first time that the Americans had a victory against a land and sea attack by the British.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
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.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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