When Sarah "Sally" Simpson was born on 6 June 1805, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States, her father, James Aaron Simpson, was 50 and her mother, Sarah Jane "Sally" Hornbuckle, was 32. She married Henry Colbern on 7 January 1828, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Warrensburg Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1860. She died on 17 November 1869, in Johnson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery, Warrensburg Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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