When Walter Watson was born on 29 March 1810, in Union, Union, South Carolina, United States, his father, John Watson, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Whitmore, was 32. He married Margaret Elizabeth Jones on 14 April 1831, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 28 July 1846, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 36.
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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.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Scottish, English, and Irish: patronymic meaning ‘son of Wat’, a pet form of Walter that was particularly common in Scotland and northern England. See Watt .
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