Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Trevilian was born on 12 September 1769, in Hanover, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Trevillian, was 39 and her mother, Sophia Terry, was 23. She had at least 5 sons and 5 daughters with John Anderson. She died on 27 March 1832, in Hanover, Virginia, United States, at the age of 62.
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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.
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
Cornish: variant of Trevelyan, a habitational name from Trevelyan in Saint Veep (Cornwall). The placename derives from Middle Cornish tre(f) ‘estate, farmstead’ + either an unrecorded Old Cornish personal name equivalent either to Old Breton Ilian or the recorded Old Cornish Milian, with mutation of m to v. This form of the surname is very rare in Britain and Ireland. Compare Trovillion .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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