When Vashti Barton was born on 23 April 1793, in Anderson, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Barton, was 33 and her mother, Dorcas Anderson, was 29. She had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with Elisha S. Kirksey. She lived in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States in 1850. She died on 4 November 1858, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 65.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
The �Mississippi territory existed from April 7, 1798, to December 10, 1817, when the western half became the state of Mississippi and the eastern half became Alabama Territory. The territory was given up by Spain through the Treaty of Madrid.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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