When Rachel Duckett was born on 5 August 1819, in Newberry, South Carolina, United States, her father, William Duckett, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Phillips, was 25. She married Gassaway Rogers O'Dell after 1850, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Newberry, Newberry, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Township 4 Cromer, Newberry, South Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 3 December 1870, in Newberry, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Whitmire, Newberry, South Carolina, United States.
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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.
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name Duket. This may sometimes have been an early Middle English pet form of an Old English Ducc(a), but was more often a pet form of Marmaduke, especially in Yorkshire (see Duke ). Marmaduke itself is from Irish Maol Maedóc ‘servant of Maedóc’, Maedóc being the name of prominent Irish saints of the 6th and 7th centuries.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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