When Jonathan A Upchurch was born on 1 October 1811, in Chatham, North Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Upchurch, was 39 and his mother, Mary Ellen Simmons, was 38. He married Nancy Brown on 26 May 1834, in Gallatin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Dunn Township, Franklin, North Carolina, United States in 1860. He died before 1890.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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: habitational name from a place called as ‘the high church’ or possibly the higher of two churches, from Middle English up ‘up, high, higher’ + chirche ‘church’ (Old English upp + cirice). There is a village of this name in Kent, near Chatham, but the geographical distribution of the surname suggests its origin is in Huntingdonshire or Cambridgeshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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