When Shelton Brockman was born on 10 February 1790, in Albemarle, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Brockman, was 32 and his mother, Frances Shelton, was 31. He married Eleanor Baker on 16 May 1816, in Madison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 25 February 1860, in Jackson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70.
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Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
On June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the 15th state. It was the first state west of the Appalachian Mountains
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English (Kent): variant of Brookman , a topographic name for someone who lived by a brook or stream (see Brook 1).
Americanized form of Jewish (from Poland) Brokman: occupational name, an agent form based on the Yiddish verb brokn ‘to crumble, shred’.
Americanized form of German Brockmann .
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