When Mary Polly Sellers was born on 16 November 1802, in Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, United States, her father, Samuel Sellers, was 35 and her mother, Sarah "Sally" Ellis, was 19. She married David Wason McCaslin in 1820, in Lancaster, Garrard, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Franklin Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 20 September 1871, in Johnson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Franklin, Franklin Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
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.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): variant of Seller , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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