When Caleb Churchman was born on 4 November 1783, in Prince George's, Maryland, United States, his father, Edward Churchman, was 26 and his mother, Rebecca Peirce, was 17. He married Martha Shelley on 1 September 1808, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Chester Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 23 March 1864, at the age of 80, and was buried in Chester Rural Cemetery, Chester, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1789: Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English: from Middle English chirch(e)man ‘clergyman; churchwarden; lay official responsible for church finances’. The earliest examples would have denoted a custodian or keeper of a church (Old English cyriceman), not a clergyman, though the earlier sense had probably been superseded by the time the surname arose.
Possibly an Americanized form (translation into English) of German Kirchmann (see Kirchman ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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