When Andrew Barrows Sherman was born on 14 July 1808, in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jabez Sherman, was 29 and his mother, Mary Polly Barrows, was 26. He had at least 4 sons and 9 daughters with Calista Vaughn. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 11 December 1887, in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English (London): occupational name denoting someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from Middle English sherman, shirman, sharman ‘shearman’.
Americanized form of North German Schürmann (see Schuermann ) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schermann .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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