When John DeShazo was born from 1806 to 1807, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Robert DeShazo, was 49 and his mother, Mary Sawyer, was 45. He married Mary Ruth "Polly" Cobb on 1 January 1827, in Bibb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Lapile, Union, Arkansas, United States in 1850. He died on 4 March 1860, in Union, Louisiana, United States.
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Louisiana was divided into 19 parishes (rather than counties or boroughs) on March 31, 1807. Currently, there are 64 parishes in Louisiana.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
Altered form of French Dechazeaux, itself a variant of Deschazeaux: topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’, from a plural derivative of Old French chaseau, from Late Latin casale ‘hut, cottage’, denoting someone from a grouping of houses, i.e. a village as opposed to a farm; or a habitational name for someone from Chazeaux, the name of several places in the southeastern part of France. The surnames Dechazeaux and Deschazeaux are very rare in France.
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