Martha Lucy Macon
BIRTH
Aug 12, 1722
DEATH
August 8, 1759
FAMILY
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Macon, Martha Lucy
(1722-1759)
Martha Lucy Macon (1722-1759) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Richard Bland. Richard Bland was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Martha Lucy Macon to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. Although this life ended before the fighting for independence began, the marriage and family connections formed part of the colonial society inherited by the Revolutionary generation. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Martha Lucy Macon in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
Martha Lucy Macon was born on Aug 12, 1722. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Martha Lucy Macon is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Martha Lucy Macon died on Aug 8, 1759. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.