When William Benjamin Goleaner was born about 1786, in Brittany, France, his father, Guillaume William Gallineau, was 24 and his mother, Marie Davais Jameux, was 32. He married Eleanor Shepherd about 1812, in Warren, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Luzerne Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States in 1810. He died on 22 August 1844, in Boone, Indiana, United States, at the age of 59.
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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.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John , but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented.
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