Brief Life History of Martha Jane
When Martha Jane Keith was born about 1795, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Eliud Keith, was 12 and her mother, Berthula Mercer, was 23. She married Kinchen Williamson in 1820, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Newton, Newton, Mississippi, United States in 1850. She died on 20 September 1845, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 51.
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- Martha Williamson in household of Kinchen Williamson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martha Jane Keith - Individual or family possessions: death: after 1850; Mississippi, United States
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1798 · Mississippi is Organized as an American Territory
The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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