Brief Life History of Joshua
When Joshua Bailey was born on 26 October 1800, in Meredith, Delaware, New York, United States, his father, Joshua Bailey, was 37 and his mother, Ruth Sears, was 35. He married Almira Miller on 10 December 1818. He lived in Watervliet, Albany, New York, United States for about 5 years. He died on 21 January 1875, in Waterford, Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York, United States.
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- Joshua Bailey, "United States Census, 1850"
- Joshua Bailey, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Joshua Bailey in entry for Almira Miller, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
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.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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