When Thomas E. Moseley was born on 4 July 1811, in Charlotte Court House, Charlotte, Virginia, United States, his father, Robert Sterling Moseley Jr., was 29 and his mother, Rebecca Adams, was 22. He married Minerva Louisa Drewry on 6 October 1847. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Weakley, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died on 5 March 1859, at the age of 47.
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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.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
English (West Midlands): habitational name from Moseley by Birmingham (Worcestershire) or, less probably, from Moseley near Worcester (Worcestershire) or Moseley in West Dean (Gloucestershire). Moseley by Birmingham probably takes its name from an Old English personal name Mūsa or Old English mūs ‘mouse’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The other placenames derive from Old English mos ‘moss, bog’ + lēah.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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