When Elijah Witten Tollett was born on 10 November 1809, in Marion, Tennessee, United States, his father, Mark Tollett, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Witten, was 18. He married Martha Beene about 1828, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in August 1876, in Hopkins, Texas, United States, at the age of 66.
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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 (Sussex and Surrey): variant of Tullett, apparently a metonymic occupational name for a maker of armor, from Middle English tuilet denoting a piece of medieval armor that protects the thigh, a diminutive of tuile, toile ‘plate of armour covering the front of the thighs’ (Old French tuile, teule ‘tile, plaque’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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