Brief Life History of Robert Wroe
When Robert Wroe Briggs was born on 7 April 1813, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Benjamin Briggs, was 29 and his mother, Susan Dabney Slaughter Hubbard, was 21. He married Charlotte B Becker on 12 November 1850, in Tazewell, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Dillon Township, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1855 and Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died in 1861, in McLean, Illinois, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States.
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- Robert W Briggs, "Illinois State Census, 1855"
- Robert W Briggs, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Robert W Briggs, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1818 · Jackson Purchase
The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Brigg, with post-medieval excrescent -s, from Middle English brig(g) (Old Norse bryggja), the northern and Scottish word for bridge, for someone who lived by a bridge or who came from any of the places called from the word.
History: The surname Briggs is found chiefly in West Yorkshire. A family of gentry have held lands at Keighley in West Yorkshire continuously for 500 years. The mathematician Henry Briggs (1561–1631), who invented logarithms, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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