When John Ragland was born about 1785, in Goochland, Virginia, United States, his father, John Pettus Ragland Jr., was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Thompson, was 30. He married Mrs. John Ragland about 1812. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He died about 1848, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 65.
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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.
On June 25, 1788 Virginia became the 10th state.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English (Cornwall): habitational name from Raglan (Monmouthshire), derived from the ancestor of Welsh rhag ‘before’ + glan ‘bank, shore’; ‘(place) before the bank or shore’, i.e. the bank of one of the headwaters of the stream Nant Olwy.
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