When Wealthy Ann Burdick was born on 2 May 1821, in Lincklaen, Chenango, New York, United States, her father, Benjamin Hall Burdick, was 39 and her mother, Hannah Stillman, was 34. She married Daniel Lee Babcock on 23 August 1845, in Lincklaen, Chenango, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Albion, Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Minnesota, United States in 1870. She died on 5 June 1877, in Wells, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Wells, Faribault, Minnesota, United States.
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Established in 1823.
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.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English (Middlesex): nickname from an unrecorded Middle English burre-dokke ‘burdock’, the name of a prickly plant with burrs and dock-like leaves (usually Arctium lappa), common on waste ground. It may have been given to someone of a prickly temperament or perhaps to someone with a hoarse voice.
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Boerdijk: habitational name from a settlement named Boerdijk, composed of boer ‘peasant, farmer, countryman’ and dijk ‘dike’.
History: Robert Burdick was a freeman of Newport, RI, in 1655.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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