When Karey Forkner was born in 1783, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Joseph Forkner Jr., was 32 and her mother, Susannah Wells, was 27. She married Elijah Harris about 1800, in Surry, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She died before 1820, in North Carolina, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
Probably an altered form of Faulkner .
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