When Enoch D Mitchell was born in 1804, in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States, his father, Nimrod Robert Mitchell, was 25 and his mother, Lucy Ann Reeve, was 19. He married Mahala A Freeman about 1832, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lost Mountain, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1860. He died on 18 January 1864, in Smyrna, York, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 60.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
A barroom brawl in Savannah on Tuesday, November 12, 1811, had international impact. An American seaman boasted of having joined the crew of a French vessel, likely named La Vengeance. Others became upset at the idea of the American joining a foreign nation and a brawl erupted. The county coroner asked for peace but was beaten with clubs. A second clash occurred the following day when French sailors attacked five American seaman. A day after the second attack, twenty French sailors attacked six Americans. Four of them escaped but two were beaten and stabbed. Jacob Taylor died on the scene and a rigger named Collins died the following day. By Friday, a full scale riot erupted when the French crewmen arrested on murder charges were released. Many were arrested and French ships La Vengeance and La Franchise were burned. In the end, the incident caused disruptions in French-American relations and affected shipping and trade.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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