Brief Life History of Unity
When Unity Copeland was born in 1785, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Obediah Copeland Sr., was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Bush, was 35. She married Daniel Dorsey on 13 November 1808, in Greene, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1860, in Crawford, Oglethorpe, Georgia, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Unity Coplan, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Unity Coplan, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
- Unity Coplan, "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967"
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1789 · Becomes 12th State
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
1795 · Yazoo Land Fraud
As Georgia had been weakened during the Revolutionary War, it was unable to defend its Yazoo lands, or land west of the Yazoo River. Thirty-five million acres were sold to four companies for $500,000 as Governor George Mathews signed the Yazoo Act on January 7, 1795. Angry Georgians protested in the streets as they felt bribery and corruption were involved and the sale was far below market value. The legislation tried to rescind the Yazoo Act, but much of the land had been sold to third parties. The issue made its way to the United States Supreme Court and it was determined that rescinding the law was an unconstitutional infringement on a legal contract. The government took full possession of the territory by 1814 and awarded its claimants over $4,000,000.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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