When Zilpha Nellie Shipman was born on 3 September 1805, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, Edward Shipman, was 33 and her mother, Hannah Robinson, was 29. She married Jesse Andrew McMinn on 5 January 1825, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 23 October 1874, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery, Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: occupational name for a boatman or mariner, or perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English schipman ‘ship man’.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English schep, ship ‘sheep’ + -man.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schepman or of its already extinct variant Schipman, cognates of 1 above.
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