When Evan Rice Evans was born on 26 February 1802, in Marietta, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Evans, was 43 and his mother, Frances Lowrey, was 27. He married Valeria Fullerton Collins in 1824. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died in April 1838, in Texas, United States, at the age of 36.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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