When Emanuel Choate was born in 1793, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Richard Drewry Choate, was 30 and his mother, Nellie McAfee, was 27. He married Mary Ammy Hamilton in 1815. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in McMinn, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died in 1859, at the age of 66.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English (Essex and Suffolk): possibly a habitational name from Chute (Wilts), a place named for Chute Forest, which is found spelled as Choete in the 13th century.
History: A John Choate who emigrated from England in 1643 and settled in Ipswich, MA, was the ancestor of several prominent 19th-century Choates, including Rufus Choate (1799–1859), who was one of the organizers of the Whig Party in MA, and Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917), US ambassador to Great Britain.
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