Penta Walcott

Male1797–

Brief Life History of Penta

Penta Walcott was born in 1797, in Union, Knox, Maine, United States. He married Eliza Clarke Standish about 1826, in Warren, Lincoln, Maine, United States.

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Penta Walcott
1797–
Eliza Clarke Standish
1801–1850
Marriage: about 1826

Sources (2)

  • Pinty Walcott, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
  • Pentey Balcott, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1826Warren, Lincoln, Maine, United States
  • World Events (3)

    1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

    Age 3

    While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

    1803

    Age 6

    France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

    1804 · Whitehead Light

    Age 7

    In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of several places called Walcott, Walcot, or Walcote, for example in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Wiltshire, all named in Old English walh ‘foreigner, Briton, serf’ (genitive plural wala) + cot ‘cottage, hut, shelter’ (plural cotu), i.e. ‘the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons lived’. This name is also frequent in Barbados and Jamaica, when emancipated slaves adopted it from the name of one or other of the sugar plantations owned there by English families called Walcott.

    History: This surname was in MA from an early date. William Walcott emigrated from England to Salem, MA, in 1637; John Wolcott (1632–1690) is recorded in Springfield, MA.

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

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