When Reverend Charles Wheeler was born on 8 April 1784, in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Rev. Samuel Wheeler, was 58 and his mother, Katharine Adams, was 19. He married Charity Anna Nelson on 11 May 1813, in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 11 January 1851, in Pruntytown, Taylor, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pruntytown, Taylor, West Virginia, 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.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English: occupational name for a wheelwright, a maker of wheels (primarily for carts and other vehicles, but also other kinds of wheels, for use in spinning or other manufacturing processes), from Middle English wheler, whegheler, a derivative of Old English hweogol, hweowol, hwēol ‘wheel’.
History: A founder of Salisbury, NH, in 1634 was John Wheeler.
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