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