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Demaris  Peacock 

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Simon Peacock
1753 - 1831

Zilpha Pitman
1/16/1762 - 1835
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Demaris Peacock
1788 - 9/1/1830
Demaris Peacock was born about 1788 in Wayne County, North Carolina and died on September 1, 1830 in an unknown place. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 42 years old.

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AgeDateEvent
5 1793 The cotton gin was invented by Whitney.
11 1799 The Rosetta Stone was discovered
12 1800 The first battery was invented by Volta
19 1807 The first steamboat was invented by Fulton
26 1814 The first locomotive engine was created by Stephenson
42 1830 The first railroad is constructed between Liverpool and Manchester, England
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12 1800 NEWS HEADLINES: Seat of U.S. government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC
23 1811 NEWS HEADLINES: Tecumseh's emerging Indian Confederacy is defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Ohio. Afterwards, Tecumseh and his brother travel from their Shawnee homes in the north to recruit and unify the southern Indians.
24 1812 NEWS HEADLINES: War of 1812 begins and will continue for until 1814. Some call it the Second War of Independence because the US fights Great Britain to a stalemate, Americas independence was assured.
40 1828 Gold is discovered in Georgia.
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1 1789 The capitol of North Carolina moves from New Bern to Raleigh and North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States of America.
42 1830 The U.S. Government begins forcing Cherokee Indians from their homes in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears. Many Cherokee hide in the mountains of North Carolina and surrounding states.
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5 1793 Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role.
6 1794 The United States establishes the Navy
10 1798 Mississippi Territory organized from Georgia's western land claims. It includes what will later become portions of Mississippi, Alabama and Northern Florida,
15 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France (who secured it from Spain) gives the US a huge new territory and the port of New Orleans.
16 1804 The Seminole warrior later known as Osceola is born near Tuskegee, AL.
17 1805 Federal Road project begins after the Creek Indians give the U.S. permission to develop a “horse path” through their nation that will provide better mail delivery between Washington City (DC) and New Orleans. Soon settlers are traveling and settling along this path to settle the southern frontier.
18 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, which began in 1804, ends. News of the rich lands to the west begins to spread.
23 1811 By 1811 the new "Federal Road" (which started as a horse path) is filled with a steady flow of white settlers into Creek Indian Territories. The Spanish begin to fan hostile sentiments among the Indians.
32 1820 The Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the land purchase credit system, fixed the price of public lands at $1.25 per acre, and set the minimum purchase at 80 acres. After a person purchased land, a final certificate was issued by the land office and sent to Washington DC to be verified and signed by the President -- a time consuming process. Public lands were most typically available through US treaties with Indians who agreed to be removed from their homelands.
42 1830 Indian Removal Act signed and the moving of eastern Indians west of the Mississippi begins.
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1 1789 French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
4 1792 French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year
5 1793 Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland.
7 1795 White Terror and bread riots in Paris
8 1796 Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais
9 1797 Napoleon proclaims the Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa


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