Where was the wife of the military commander for the British Army in the early days of the American Revolution born??
Margaret Kemble Gage Margaret Kemble Gage (1734–1824) was the wife of General Thomas Gage, who led the British Army in Massachusetts early in the American Revolutionary War. She was born in New Brunswick, Province of New Jersey and resided in East Brunswick Township. She died in England in 1824. Mrs. Gage was a gateway ancestor to centuries of English nobility who have Dutch and Huguenot ancestry from what was once New Netherlands and later the Thirteen Colonies of British North America.
Martha Jefferson Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (born Martha Wayles; October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson. She was a widow at her second wedding, as her first husband had died young. When her second husband, Jefferson, was Governor of Virginia, she served as First Lady of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. She would have been the third First Lady of the United States, but she died in 1782 well before her husband Thomas Jefferson's presidential term from 1801 to 1809. She also died before the United States Constitution was adopted.