When Dr. Frederic Percival Leverett MD was born on 10 August 1831, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Frederick Percival Leverett, was 27 and his mother, Matilda Gorham, was 18. He lived in St. Helena Parish, Beaufort, South Carolina, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 23 July 1864, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, United States.
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Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
On August 31, 1835, in Charleston, South Carolina an angry mob takes control over the U-S mail and burns it in public.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
English:
from the Middle English personal name Levered, Leveret, Lovered (Old English Lēofrǣd, from lēof ‘dear, beloved’ + rǣd ‘counsel, advice’). Levered and Leveret were sometimes altered to Leverod(e) and Leverote, perhaps through false association with personal names ending in the interchangeable hypocoristic suffixes -et(e) and -ot(e).
nickname from Middle English: Anglo-Norman French leveret ‘young hare’ is possible, though no certain examples are on record.
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