When Anne Maxey was born on 27 July 1795, in Oglethorpe, Macon, Georgia, United States, her father, John Maxey, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Greer, was 19. She married Gideon Kimbell on 18 March 1813, in Clarke, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1845, in Butts, Georgia, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in County Line Baptist Church Cemetery, Jenkinsburg, Butts, Georgia, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Georgia’s first land lottery act was signed by Governor John Milledge. The first drawings for the land lottery were held two years later in 1805.
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.
English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, so named from the Old English personal name Maccus + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macasa ‘descendant of Macus’, a personal name of uncertain origin. It may be a variant of Magnus .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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