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John Hutchings (slave Trader)
John Hutchings (November 20, 1817) was a nephew by marriage of American slave trader, militia leader, and U.S. president Andrew Jackson. He was Jackson's partner in his general stores, and Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States, his slave-trading operation. Biography Hutchings was a son of Rachel Jackson, Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson's older sister Catherine Donelson and her husband Thomas Hutchings. John Hutchings may have been known as "Jackey" to friends and family. He married a woman named Polly Smith, who was the niece of William Smith (South Carolina politician, born 1762), William Smith, who attended school with Andrew Jackson in the Carolinas and later became a U.S. Senator. According to the editors of ''The Papers of Andrew Jackson'', Hutchings was "Jackson's partner in the Lebanon, Tennessee, Lebanon, Gallatin, Tennessee, Gallatin, and Hunter's Hill (Tennessee), Hunter's Hill stores." Surviving letters from William C. C. Claiborne and Hutchings ...
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War Of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It began when the United States declared war on 18 June 1812 and, although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by Congress on 17 February 1815. Tensions originated in long-standing differences over territorial expansion in North America and British support for Native American tribes who opposed US colonial settlement in the Northwest Territory. These escalated in 1807 after the Royal Navy began enforcing tighter restrictions on American trade with France and press-ganged men they claimed as British subjects, even those with American citizenship certificates. Opinion in the US was split on how to respond, and although majorities in both the House an ...
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Lyncoya Jackson
Lyncoya Jackson (also known as Lincoyer, c. 1811 – July 1, 1828) was a Creek Indian child adopted and raised by U.S. President Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel Jackson. Born to Creek (Muscogee/Red Stick) parents, he was orphaned during the Creek War after the Battle of Tallushatchee. Lyncoya was brought to Jackson after the surviving women in the village refused to care for him because they were severely injured. Jackson took pity on the orphan and wrote that he felt an "unusual sympathy" for the child, perhaps because of Jackson's own past as an orphan. Deciding to protect him, Jackson sent him along to be raised by his wife while he continued to lead his army. Lyncoya was brought to the Jackson home, The Hermitage, in 1813. He was educated along with Andrew Jackson's first adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr.,http://www.american-presidents.org/2008/05/lyncoya-jacksons-native-son.html and Jackson even had aspirations to send him to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but ...
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Andrew Jackson Jr
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the el, Ἀνδρέας, ''Andreas'', itself related to grc, ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew. Popularity Australia In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s. Canada Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for mal ...
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Harriet Chappell Owsley
Harriet Chappell Owsley (July 26, 1901July 2, 1999) was a historian and archivist who studied the U.S. South region. She was curator of manuscripts at the Tennessee State Library and Archives and was co-editor of the first volume of '' The Papers of Andrew Jackson''. Biography Born in Waco, Texas, she studied at Birmingham-Southern College and George Peabody College for Teachers. After she married historian Frank Owsley, the family lived on the campus of Vanderbilt University from 1920 to 1949. During the period 1939 to 1945, she worked with Blanche Henry Clark and Chase Mooney to create what are known as the Owsley charts, which are "a composite of Schedules I (land ownership), H (slave ownership), and IV (products of agriculture) of the unpublished Federal Census for Tennessee, 1850 and 1860." The couple later lived and worked in Alabama and England. After his death in 1956, she returned to Nashville. She was heavily involved in the 1959 revision of F. Owsley's ''King Cotton ...
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The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee)
The Hermitage is a historical museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, east of downtown Nashville. The + site was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845. It also serves as his final resting place. Jackson lived at the property intermittently until he retired from public life in 1837. Enslaved men, women, and children, numbering nine at the plantation's purchase in 1804 and 110 at Jackson's death, worked at the Hermitage and were principally involved in growing cotton, its major cash crop. It is a National Historic Landmark. Mansion and grounds Architecture The Hermitage is built in a secluded meadow that was chosen as a house site by Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson. From 1804 to 1821, Jackson and his wife lived in a log cabin. Together, the complex formed the First Hermitage, with the structures known as the West, East, and Southeast cabins. Jackson commissioned c ...
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John Hutchings Jr
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ...
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County. By population, it is the second-largest city in Kentucky and 57th-largest city in the United States. By land area, it is the country's 28th-largest city. The city is also known as "Horse Capital of the World". It is within the state's Bluegrass region. Notable locations in the city include the Kentucky Horse Park, The Red Mile and Keeneland race courses, Rupp Arena, Central Bank Center, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky, and Bluegrass Community and Technical College. As of the 2020 census the population was 322,570, anchoring a metropolitan area of 516,811 people and a combined statistical area of 747,919 people. Lexington is consolidated entirely within Fayette County, and vice versa. It has a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government, with 12 council districts and three members elected at large, with the highest vote-getter designated vice mayor. H ...
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John Brahan
John Brahan (June 8, 1774July 5, 1834) was a resident of the frontier-era U.S. South. He was a land speculator, public official, and militia officer in Tennessee and Alabama. In 1819 he resigned from his job as receiver of public monies at the public land office in Huntsville, Alabama because the federal bank account was short $80,000. Biography Brahan was originally from Fauquier County, Virginia. He was married to Mary Weakley, daughter of Tennessee politician and landowner Robert Weakley. Brahan was paymaster of the Tennessee militia in 1804 at Fort Southwest Point. He and William Dickson were appointed to work at the Nashville Land Office on April 10, 1809. Brahan was in the Natchez District of Mississippi Territory when his appointment came through. A military staff list published at Natchez in May 1809 listed Brahan as a captain. Both Brahan and Dickson were land speculators. Brahan's job was "receiver of public monies" and Dickson's job was registrar. Both men had a con ...
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Athens, Alabama
Athens is a city in and the county seat of Limestone County, in the U.S. state of Alabama; it is included in the Huntsville-Decatur-Albertville, AL Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city is 21,897. History Founded in 1818 by John Coffee, Robert Beaty, John D. Carroll, and John Read, Athens is one of the oldest incorporated cities in the state, having been incorporated one year prior to the state's admittance to the Union in 1819. Limestone County was also created by an act of the Alabama Territorial Legislature in 1818.A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing The Statutes and Resolutions in Force at the end of the General Assembly in January, 1823. Published by Ginn & Curtis, J. & J. Harper, Printers, New-York, 1828. Title 62. Chapter XXV. Page 803"An Act to Incorporate the Town of Athens, in Limestone County.—Passed November 19, 1818." (Google Books)/ref> The town was first called Athenson, but was incorporated as At ...
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Huntsville, Alabama
Huntsville is a city in Madison County, Limestone County, and Morgan County, Alabama, United States. It is the county seat of Madison County. Located in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama, Huntsville is the most populous city in the state. Huntsville was founded within the Mississippi Territory in 1805 and became an incorporated town in 1811. When Alabama was admitted as a state in 1819, Huntsville was designated for a year as the first capital, before that was moved to more central settlements. The city developed across nearby hills north of the Tennessee River, adding textile mills in the late nineteenth century. Its major growth has taken place since World War II. During the war, the Army established Redstone Arsenal near here with a chemical weapons plant, and nearby related facilities. After the war, additional research was conducted at Redstone Arsenal on rockets, followed by adaptations for space exploration. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the Unit ...
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Treaty Of Fort Jackson
The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks, 1814) was signed on August 9, 1814 at Fort Jackson near Wetumpka, Alabama following the defeat of the Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by United States allied forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. It occurred on the banks of the Tallapoosa River near the present city of Alexander City, Alabama. The U.S. force, led by General Andrew Jackson, consisted mainly of the West Tennessee Militia and 39th United States Infantry, allied with several groups of Cherokee and Lower Creek friendly to the American side. The Upper Creek were led by Chief Menawa, who fled with hundreds of survivors into Florida, where they allied with the Seminole. The surrender ended the Creek War, which the United States was fighting simultaneously with the War of 1812."Fort Jackson Tr ...
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