When William Crisp was born in 1816, in Burke, North Carolina, United States, his father, Micajah Michahak Crisp, was 32 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Sumpter, was 24.
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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.
English: nickname for a man with curly hair, from Middle English crisp, crips, scrip, Old English crisp, cryps (from Latin crispus), reinforced in Middle English by an Old French word also from Latin crispus. In some cases this is possibly a nickname from the personal name Crispin .
Americanized form of German Krisp: nickname from Middle High German krisp, krispel ‘curly-haired man’.
Americanized form of German Krisp: from a short form of the medieval personal name Krispin (see Crispin ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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