Rachel Herring

Brief Life History of Rachel

Rachel Herring was born in 1695, in Virginia, United States. She had at least 4 sons and 6 daughters with Cornelius Loftin.

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Cornelius Loftin
1689–1762
Rachel Herring
1695–
Rebecca Loftin
1706–
Elizabeth Loftin
1715–1810
Shalotta Loftin
1716–
Cornelius Loftin Jr.
1720–1790
Cornelius Loftin
1720–1794
Isabella Elizabeth Loftin
1720–1836
Jemina Loftin
1723–1762
Rosanna Loftin
1725–1814
Leonard Lewis Loftin
1728–1805
Shadrach Loftin
1755–1812

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    World Events (4)

    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.

    1776

    Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

    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 (London), Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring, from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring, hēring), Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.

    German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia.

    German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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    When RACHEL HERRING (cum Loftin) was born in 1698 in Chowan, North Carolina, her father, Simon, was -7, and her mother, SARA, was 20. She married CORNELIUS, Planter LOFTIN in 1716 in Craven, North Car …

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