When Francis Edwin Whitfield was born in 1814, in North Carolina, United States, his father, William Alexander Whitfield III, was 71 and his mother, Sarah Bryan Hatch, was 40. He married Margaret Ann Fort on 6 August 1832. He lived in Alcorn, Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Beat 4, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States in 1880. He died from 1887 to 1889, in Sumterville, Sumter, Florida, United States.
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Tallahassee was named the state capital in 1824 by Floridas first territorial governor, William P. DuVal.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
The Second Seminole War, often called the Florida War, was a conflict between Native Americans and the United States. Taking place from 1835 until 1842, it is regarded as the lengthiest, most expensive conflict that the United States had with the Native American people. There were roughly 1,600 US military casualties and over 3,000 deaths among the Seminole people. The war was followed by a brief period of peace, but the government's insistence on removing Native Americans from Florida would eventually result in further conflicts.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Whitfield, for example in Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Northumberland, or Whitefield in Lancashire and the Isle of Wight, named with Old English hwīt ‘white’ + feld ‘open country’, probably because of their chalky soil.
History: Henry Whitfield (1597–c. 1657), preacher and scholar, came from Mortlake, Surrey, England (now part of Greater London) to New Haven, CT, in 1639 and was one of the first settlers in Guilford, CT. He had ten children, some of whom he left in CT when he returned to England in 1650, where he died.
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