Penta Walcott
1797–
Union, Knox, Maine, United States
The Life 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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Family Time Line
Penta Walcott
1797–
Eliza Clarke Standish
1805–1850
Marriage: about 1826
Spouse and Children
1797–Male
1805–1850Female
MARRIAGE
about 1826
Warren, Lincoln, Maine, United States
about 1826
Warren, 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 with w(e)alh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’, ‘Welsh’, genitive plural wala ( see Wallace ) + cot ‘cottage’, ‘shelter’, i.e. ‘the cottage where the (Welsh-speaking) Britons lived’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (2)
- Pentey Balcott, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Pinty Walcott, "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907"
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