When Caleb Cloud was born in 1779, in East Bradford Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Mordecai Cloud, was 55 and his mother, Ann Jackson, was 41. He married Sarah Stidham on 11 December 1802, in Tent, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1830, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States, at the age of 51.
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Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop or hill, from Old English clūd ‘rock’ (only later used to denote vapor formations in the sky), or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Temple Cloud (Somerset), Cloud Bridge (Warwickshire), and Clouds Wood (Hertfordshire).
Native American: translation into English (and shortening) of a personal name based on a word, such as Lakota and Dakota Sioux mahpiya, meaning ‘cloud’. Among the Sioux, several of their traditional personal names with this element were adopted as surnames (translated into English), e.g. Iron Cloud (see Ironcloud ) and Red Cloud (see Redcloud ).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hlodald, composed of the elements hlōd ‘famous, clear’ + wald ‘rule’, which was borne by a Christian saint and bishop of the 6th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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