Sophronia Haskins Pearce was born on 10 February 1806, in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. She married George Pearce on 27 May 1828, in Fairfield, Herkimer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Fairfield, Herkimer, New York, United States for about 5 years. She died on 24 June 1871, in Little Falls, Herkimer, New York, United States, at the age of 65.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
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: variant of Haskin , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Ó hUiscín; see Haskin . More probably, however, it is an altered form of a diminutive of Fuarghus, a personal name meaning ‘cold vigor’.
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