When Mary Bolt Barnard was born on 13 March 1811, in Kibler, Patrick, Virginia, United States, her father, Isham Barnard, was 23 and her mother, Sarah "Sally" Mahala Burch, was 25. She married Thomas Bonaparte Shelor on 8 March 1831, in Patrick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died before 1850, in Virginia, 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.
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
English, Dutch, and French: variant of Bernard and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. The surname Barnard is very rare in France.
Americanized form of German Bernhard or Bernhardt , and of German, Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Bernard .
History: This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. John Barnard was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker). Another John Barnard, born in Boston in 1681, was a Congregational clergyman who served as minister of Marblehead, MA, from 1716 to 1770.
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