When William (Williby) Branham was born in 1820, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Andrew Branham, was 45 and his mother, Dorcas Mercy, was 38. He married Eugenia Jane Rabon about 1835, in Kershaw, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died in 1869, in his hometown, at the age of 49.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
"On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called ""the rising."" The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it."
On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.
Irish: from Mac Branáin, see Brannan , which is itself a variant of Brennan .
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