When Anson Hawley Taylor was born on 29 December 1800, in Charlton, Charlton, Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Richard Taylor, was 23 and his mother, Peninah Hawley, was 19. He married Esther Denison about 1827, in Saratoga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 6 September 1864, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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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.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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