When Joseph B Pitts was born in 1795, in Chatham, North Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph Pitts, was 35 and his mother, Martha Barbee, was 38. He had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters with Jane Burr. He died in September 1843, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 48.
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On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: variant of Pitt , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: topographic name for one who lived by pits or hollows, from the plural of Middle English pitt.
Americanized form of German Pitz .
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