When James Woodmansee Sr was born in 1783, his father, James Woodmansee Jr., was 17 and his mother, Hannah Ann Sheppard, was 16. He married Agnes Hammers on 16 May 1805, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Jackson, Indiana, United States in 1840. He died on 8 May 1847, in Indiana, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Lawrence, Indiana, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English (London): habitational name from Woodmansey in East Yorkshire, probably named from Old English wudumann ‘woodman, forester’ + sǣ ‘sea, lake’ or from wudumannes (genitive form of wuduman) + ēa ‘river, stream’.
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