When Margaret Jane Kimball was born on 24 May 1810, in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Richard Kimball, was 40 and her mother, Margaret Ferren, was 38. She married George Worcester on 2 September 1832, in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. She died on 6 November 1881, in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in North Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English:
habitational name from Great and Little Kimble (Buckinghamshire). The placename probably derives from Old English cyne ‘royal’ + belle ‘(bell-shaped) hill’.
variant of Kimble .
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