When Margaret McVey was born on 18 December 1811, in Adams, Ohio, United States, her father, William McVey, was 28 and her mother, Mary Lowry, was 28. She married James Wilson Baldridge on 15 December 1829, in Cherry Fork, Wayne Township, Adams, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in West Union, Tiffin Township, Adams, Ohio, United States in 1870 and Wayne Township, Adams, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died on 14 November 1881, in Cherry Fork, Wayne Township, Adams, Ohio, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cherry Fork Cemetery, Cherry Fork, Wayne Township, Adams, Ohio, 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.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Bheatha ‘son of life’, i.e. ‘man of religion’. Compare Scottish McBeth .
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