When Joseph Colville was born on 15 June 1797, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, his father, Maj Joseph Colville III, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Lusk, was 32. He married Sally Cheek about 1815, in Tennessee, United States. He lived in Warren, Fayette, Tennessee, United States in 1830. He died on 9 December 1849, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 52.
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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.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English and Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Colleville in Seine-Maritime, France, named with the Scandinavian personal name Koli (see Cole 2) + Old French ville ‘settlement, village’. The Scottish branch of the family were descended from Philip de Colville, who came to Scotland as a household knight of kings Malcolm IV (1153–65) and William ‘the Lion’ (1165–1214).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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