Samuel Shelley
Maleabout 1810–

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Shelley was born about 1810, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Isaac Shelley, was 27 and his mother, Magdalena Meyer, was 24.

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Isaac Shelley

1784–1839

Magdalena Meyer

1788–1826

Elizabeth Shelley

1810–

Isaac Shelley

1810–

Jacob Shelley

1810–

Samuel Shelley

1810–

Nancy Ann Shelley

1825–1880

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Parents and Siblings

Isaac Shelley

Male1784–1839 Male

Magdalena Meyer

Female1788–1826 Female

Siblings (5)

Female1810– Female

Male1810– Male

Male1810– Male

Male1810– Male

Female1825–1880 Female

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1812

Age 2

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1812 · War of 1812

Age 2

Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.

1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital

Age 2

Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.

Name Meaning

Shelley

Samuel

English: habitational name from any of the three places called Shelley (Essex, Suffolk, Yorkshire) or from Shelley Plain in Crawley (Sussex). The placenames all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish (Laois): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sealbhaigh ‘descendant of Sealbhach’, a byname from the adjective sealbhach ‘having possessions, wealthy’.

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Samuel Shelley
Maleabout 1810–

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