When Martha Tipton was born about 1804, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, her father, Lt Benjamin F Tipton, was 50 and her mother, Rebecca Cusick, was 26. She died about 1810, in her hometown, at the age of 8.
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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.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
English (Shropshire and Staffordshire): habitational name from a place in Staffordshire. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Tibba (genitive Tibban) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from the personal name Tibba + Old English connective -ing- + Old English tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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