Brief Life History of Roseanna Wilcox
When Roseanna Wilcox Mills was born on 1 January 1820, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, her father, George Silvester Mills, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Van Houten Ryerson, was 24. She married Dr. George Adam on 30 January 1839, in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 9 February 1859, in Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, North Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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- Rosanna Adam in household of George Adam, "United States Census, 1850"
- Rosanna Mills Adam, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Roxane Mills in entry for Mary Adams Noble, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"
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1820
On January 28, 1820, the New Jersey Legislature incorporated the City of Jersey from parts of the Bergen Township. The city would be reincorporated two more times (January 23, 1829 and February 22, 1838) before receiving its official name. Jersey City became part of the new Hudson County in February of 1840.
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.
1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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