When Silas Chappell was born about 1807, in Chowan, North Carolina, United States, his father, Henry Chappell, was 29 and his mother, Esther Perry, was 24. He married Elizabeth Ann Copeland on 2 December 1826, in Perquimans MM, Perquimans, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Chowan, Chowan, North Carolina, United States in 1830. He died before 4 November 1845, in North Carolina, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel, from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa ‘hood, cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel, sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of Saint Martin was preserved as a relic.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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