When Hanna Rhyne was born on 17 August 1814, in Lincoln Twp, Pender, North Carolina, United States, her father, Michael Rhyne, was 40 and her mother, Catharine Huffman, was 28.
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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.
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.
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.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Swiss German Rhyn: topographic name for someone living on the Rhine river, Middle High German Rīn.
Americanized form of German Rhein or Rein , or perhaps of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
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