When Frances Sophia Clarkson was born in 1810, in South Carolina, United States, her father, William Hutchinson Clarkson, was 35 and her mother, Esther Susannah Doar, was 21. She died on 8 January 1832, in her hometown, at the age of 22, and was buried in Quaker Cemetery, Camden, Kershaw, South Carolina, United States.
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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.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from Clark .
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