When Joseph Shinn was born on 19 May 1822, in Virginia, United States, his father, Clement Isaac Shinn III, was 48 and his mother, Lucretia Shinn, was 36. He married Henrietta Ash on 26 November 1846, in Wilsonburg, Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Carrollton, Burlington Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died in 1906, at the age of 84, and was buried in Deer Creek Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States.
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“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
English (Norfolk and Suffolk): nickname from Middle English shin(ne) ‘fair, handsome’, a variant of Shine 3 and Sheen 2.
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