When Benjamin Franklin Galloway was born on 30 March 1800, in North Carolina, United States, his father, James H. Galloway, was 35 and his mother, Preussen Orrell, was 28. He married Phoebe Smellage in 1834, in Weakley, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died on 13 March 1872, in Weakley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Sharon, Weakley, Tennessee, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The Walton War was a border dispute between Georgia and North Carolina, when Georgia established Walton County. The main piece of land being fought over was called the Orphan Strip and was located between North Carolina and Georgia. It started in 1804 and became part of the War of 1812 and lasted until 1818.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
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