When Joseph Burnett was born in 1802, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Burnett, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Acuff, was 36. He married Nancy Brown about 1829, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Franklin, Missouri, United States in 1840 and Crawford, Missouri, United States in 1850. He died on 23 May 1873, in Boone Township, Crawford, Missouri, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Bourbon, Crawford, Missouri, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Historical Boundaries: 1819: Franklin, Missouri, United States
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.
Scottish and Irish (Tyrone and Antrim): descriptive nickname of Norman origin, from Old French burnete, a diminutive of brun ‘brown’ (see Brown ), or possibly in some instances a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of burnete, a high quality woolen cloth, originally dark brown in color.
Probably also an altered form of English Barnett .
In some cases also an altered form of French Burnet ; compare Burnette .
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