When Lucy Smalley was born on 3 December 1809, in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States, her father, Noble Smalley Sr, was 25 and her mother, Lydia Bigelow, was 23. She married Daniel Benedict on 14 July 1830, in Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Montpelier, Washington, Vermont, United States in 1850. She died on 10 September 1889, in Plainfield, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in East Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, 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 (Lancashire): habitational name chiefly from Smalley in Balderston near Blackburn (Lancashire), but occasionally from Smalley (Derbyshire) and perhaps also from Smalley in Stanley (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English smæl ‘narrow, thin’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. In Scots pronunciation the surname developed to Smellie , Smillie , and Smiley .
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