When Mary Crockett was born on 1 February 1772, in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, her father, Robert Crockett, was 25 and her mother, Rachel Kerr, was 34. She married James Davis on 13 April 1803. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Bond, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died on 14 April 1861, at the age of 89, and was buried in Reno, Bond, Illinois, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
North Carolina is the 12th state.
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.
English (Staffordshire) and Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname for someone who affected a particular hairstyle, from Anglo-Norman French croket ‘ornamental curl or roll of hair’ (Old Norman French croquet, a diminutive of croque ‘curl, hook’).
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