When John Hamaker Sr. was born in 1780, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David G. Hamacher, was 28 and his mother, Anna Herr, was 26. He married Elizabeth Sarah Spears on 27 August 1802, in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Alabama, United States for about 10 years and Jonesboro Precinct, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1860. He died in June 1864, in Bessemer, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Valley Creek, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.
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Pennsylvania was always against slavery, even though the first settlers, including Penn, came with slaves. Slavery was not prominent in the area.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Dutch: occupational name for a harness and collar maker for horses and other (draught) animals, possibly also a saddle maker, from a compound of haam ‘stable gear, saddlery, collar’ and maker, an agent noun from maken ‘to make’.
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