When John Bowell was born on 8 March 1785, in Fayette City, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Bazil Bowell, was 37 and his mother, Margaret Bowen, was 36. He married Elizabeth "Betsy" Carr on 6 March 1808, in Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 29 April 1866, in La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Pine Lake Cemetery, La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States.
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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.
On December 12, 1787, Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bouelles in Seine-Maritime, France, so named with Old Norman French boelle ‘enclosure, dwelling’.
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