When Enoch Pepper was born about 1768, in Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel C Pepper, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Holton, was 41. He lived in Gouge's, Grant, Kentucky, United States in 1830. He died on 27 June 1835, in Minerva, Mason, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 68.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English and North German: from Middle English peper, piper, Middle Low German peper ‘pepper’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a spicer; alternatively, it may be a nickname for a small man (as if the size of a peppercorn) or one with a fiery temper, or for a dark-haired man (from the color of a peppercorn) or anecdotal for someone who paid a peppercorn rent.
Irish: variant of Peppard .
Americanized form of Jewish Pfeffer , Feffer or Fefer, all meaning ‘pepper’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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