When Betsey Wing was born on 17 June 1800, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Timothy Wing, was 24 and her mother, Deborah Damon, was 19. She married Hallett Briggs on 9 February 1823, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 8 May 1887, in Marion, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 86.
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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.
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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Weng (Old West Scandinavian Wenge, perhaps originally a nickname from vengi ‘pillow, cushion’).
English and Scottish: habitational name from either Wing in Buckinghamshire or Wing in Rutland. The Buckinghamshire placename probably means ‘the people of Wiwa’, from an Old English personal name Wiwa + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. The Rutland placename and probably derives from Old Norse vengi ‘field’.
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 榮, see Rong 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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