When Daniel M. Colby was born on 22 July 1809, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Ela Colby, was 40 and his mother, Jane Holmes, was 42. He married Eliza Ann Hall on 3 May 1865, in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1870. He died on 12 August 1885, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, 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.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English (eastern): habitational name from Colby in Norfolk and Westmorland, Coleby in Lincolnshire, or Coulby Newham in the North Yorkshire. The Colby placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.
Americanized form of Norwegian Kolby .
Americanized form of German Kolbe . Compare Kolby .
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