Brief Life History of Gaspar
When Gaspar Clubb was born on 14 April 1740, in Rheinböllen, Simmern, Rhineland, Prussia, his father, Johann Peter Clubb Jr., was 24 and his mother, Anna Margaretha Kuerten, was 18. He had at least 11 sons and 1 daughter with Anna Margaretha Seitz. He died in 1820, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Gasper Club, "United States Census, 1790"
- Johann Caspar Klopp, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Johann Caspar Klopp, "Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1781 · The First Constitution
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.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex and Kent) and Scottish (Aberdeenshire): from Middle English clubbe, clobbe ‘club’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a club maker or possibly as a nickname for someone who habitually carried a club. By the medieval Assize of Arms, every adult man had to be provided with at least a knife and a staff or club.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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