When Elizabeth Ann Blackledge was born on 29 November 1785, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Zachariah Blackledge Sr., was 18 and her mother, Mary Gressett, was 15. She married Herrin Henry Waters in 1809, in Colleton, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 8 daughters. She died in 1858, in Jones, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 73.
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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 May 23, 1788, South Carolina ratifies the Constitution of the United States making it the 8th State of the Union.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from a place called Blacklache near Leyland, Lancashire (now surviving in Blacklache House), named with Old English blæc ‘black, dark’ + læc(e) ‘boggy stream’.
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