When Jane Phelps was born in 1786, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States, her father, Captain John Phelps, was 41 and her mother, Mary May Williams, was 36. She married Ausburn Ridgeway on 29 September 1803, in Rowan, Bladen, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1850. She died in 1850, in Buffalo Hart Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Buffalo Hart Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state in the Union.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
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