Sarah Clementiva Beach was born on 11 September 1801, in Ballston, Saratoga, New York, United States. She married James Jarvis Gilbert on 3 September 1827, in Ballston Spa, Saratoga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Woodford, Bennington, Vermont, United States in 1850 and West Haven, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1860. She died on 27 April 1872, in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Fair Haven, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
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.
English: topographic name from Middle English beche ‘beech-tree’ (Old English bēce) or Middle English beche ‘stream’ (Old English bæce). Middle English beche may be from Old English bēce ‘beech’ or bæce ‘stream’, and without further evidence it is impossible to distinguish these in Middle English.
Americanized form of Alsatian and German Bitsch: habitational name from Bitche (German Bitsch) in Alsace and Lorraine, at the foot of the northern slope of the Vosges.
Americanized form of German (mainly Hesse) Bitsch: unexplained.
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