When Rufus Copeland was born on 11 May 1785, in Bristol, Addison, Vermont, United States, his father, David Copeland Jr, was 46 and his mother, Martha Putnam, was 42. He married Louisa Davis on 6 January 1820, in Hardwick, Caledonia, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1812. He died on 11 May 1849, in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Eden Cemetery, Topeka, Eden Township, LaGrange, 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 March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
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