Peter E Blake was born on 2 August 1800, in Tennessee, United States. He married Sarah M Ball on 28 December 1827, in Henry, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1830 and Cleveland Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1850. He died on 9 December 1857, in South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Sumption Prairie Cemetery, South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, 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.
Indiana is the 19th state.
English and Scottish (England and central Scotland): variant of Black 1, meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired’, from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black’, with change of vowel length.
English: nickname from Middle English blak(e) (Old English blāc) ‘wan, pale, white, fair’. In Middle English the two words blac and blāc, with opposite meanings, fell together as Middle English blake. In the absence of independent evidence as to whether the person referred to was dark or fair, it is now impossible to tell which sense was originally meant.
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English bleik, blaik>, blek(e) (Old Norse bleikr) ‘pale or sallow’ (in complexion).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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