Brief Life History of Priscilla
When Priscilla Dorland was born on 29 August 1819, her father, Garret Lucas Dorland, was 45 and her mother, Elizabeth, was 44. She married Jordan Sea Robinson on 15 July 1841, in Platte, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Santa Clara Judicial Township, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1860 and California, United States in 1870. She died on 29 June 1878, in Colusa, California, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Colusa, California, United States.
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- Pricilla Robinson in household of J S Robinson, "United States Census, 1850"
- Washington, Marriage Records, 1854-2013
- Washington Death Index, 1940-1996
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1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1829 · ""
Historical Boundaries - 1829: Oregon Country, United States; 1843: Clackamas, Oregon Country, United States; 1846: Clackamas, Oregon Unorganized Federal Territory, United States; 1848: Clackamas, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Clackamas, Oregon, United States
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
French: variant of Dourland, itself an altered form of Dourlens, Dourlent: habitational name from Doullens (in 1100 Dourlens), a place in Somme.
Dutch (also Van Dorland): cognate of 1 above, from the medieval Dutch name of Doullens in Somme. Compare Durland .
History: The progenitor of at least some of the Dutch Dorlands was Gijsbrecht Dorland van Nijenrode (died 1455), the illegitimate son of Gijsbrecht van Nijenrode. His children dropped the second part of the surname and went by the name van Dorland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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