John Jeter

Brief Life History of John

When John Jeter was born about 1805, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Dudley Jeter, was 52 and his mother, Rebecca Wynne, was 28.

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Dudley Jeter
1754–1838
Rebecca Wynne
1778–1861
John Jeter
1798–
Sidney Jeter
1804–
John Jeter
1805–
Nancy Jane Jeter
1799–1870
John Jeter
1801–
Mary Ann Turner Jeter
1801–1808
Emily Jeter
1803–1805
Barnett B Jeter
1804–1878
Bennett Jeter
1804–
Catherine Jeter
1806–
Sidney Jeter
1806–1825
William Wynne Jeter
1809–1862
Catherine Jeter
1810–1885
James Jeter
1810–
Mary Emily Jeter
1812–1860
Samuel Dudley Jeter
1814–1888
Robert Jeter
1815–1867
Robert Wynne Jeter
1819–1886

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    World Events (3)

    1808

    Atlantic slave trade abolished.

    1812

    War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

    1830 · Trail of Tears

    In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Geater .

    German: variant of Jetter and, in North America, possibly also an altered form of this. The surname Jeter is very rare in Germany.

    History: John Jeter is said to be one of a group of Huguenots who came from England to VA in 1700, but the name is found in England from the late 13th century, long before the first Huguenot refugees arrived there in the late 16th century.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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