Brief Life History of Betsey Ann
When Betsey Ann Mills was born on 23 June 1809, in Randolph, Indiana, United States, her father, Seth Mills, was 27 and her mother, Charity Thornburgh, was 19. She married Phineas Massey on 14 December 1826, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 15 October 1829, in her hometown, at the age of 20.
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- Betsy Mills, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1818
Historical Boundaries 1818: Randolph, Indiana, United States
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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