Brief Life History of John
John Mack was born in 1786, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States as the son of John Mack and Nancy J Trotter. He married Nancy Pogue on 14 February 1842, in McDonald, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 6 November 1873, in Walton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 87.
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- John Mack, "United States Census, 1850"
- John Mack, "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967"
- Georgia, U.S., Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, 1867-1869
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · South Carolina becomes the 8th state in the Union
On May 23, 1788, South Carolina ratifies the Constitution of the United States making it the 8th State of the Union.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: from the Old Norse personal name Makkr, representing an Old Irish name Mac ‘son’ Latinized as Maccus. It was once thought that Maccus was a form of Magnus , but this is not so.
Scottish and Irish: possibly from a shortened form of any of the many Scottish and Irish surnames beginning with Mac- ‘son’, a nickname that occasionally became encoded as a nickname and thence perhaps as a genuine surname, but the evidence for this is thin.
North German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Macco, Makko, a pet form of a compound name with the first element māg- ‘kinsman’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the much more common Dutch variant Mak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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