When George Shumate was born about 1769, in Westmoreland, Virginia, United States, his father, Bailey Shumate, was 25 and his mother, Mary Dodson, was 19. He married Rosannah Graham on 1 October 1789, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 3 May 1838, in Nicholas, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Carlisle, Nicholas, Kentucky, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
Americanized form of French Chaumette: topographic name for someone who lived on a chaumette, a high, arid plateau with very little vegetation, derived from a diminutive of chaume ‘bare land’ (from a specialized sense of Latin calmus ‘calm, unruffled’); or a habitational name from La Chaumette, the name of several places in the central part of France. See also Delashmutt , compare Shoemate .
History: Jean de la Chaumette from Rochechouart in Haute-Vienne became a wealthy colonist in Martinique and subsequently (1722) a tobacco planter in VA. In North America his surname was changed to Shumate. He was the brother of Pierre de la Chaumette (see Delashmutt ). Jean de la Chaumette is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America, while his brother Pierre is listed in the similar register of the (US) National Huguenot Society.
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