When Dowdell Samford was born about 1786, in Union, South Carolina, United States, her father, Thomas Jasper Samford, was 29 and her mother, Laviniah Jane Turbeville, was 36. She died in 1786, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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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.
English (Essex): variant of Sandford .
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