Brief Life History of Persis
When Persis Wing was born on 2 September 1807, in Dennis, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, David Wing, was 45 and her mother, Desiree Vincent, was 36. She married Jesse Truesdell Peck on 13 October 1831. She died on 8 December 1897, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States.
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- Persis Peck, "New York State Census, 1875"
- Persis_ Wing, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Persis W Peck, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1819
In 1819 a committee was appointed to settle on a name for this place. Syracuse was proposed by John Wilkinson because of the similarities he noticed between the description of ancient Siracusa in Sicily and the characteristics of this area; both had salt-water springs and a town to the north called Salina. The committee chose the name by unanimous vote.
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: from the Middle English personal name Weng (Old West Scandinavian Wenge, perhaps originally a nickname from vengi ‘pillow, cushion’).
English and Scottish: habitational name from either Wing in Buckinghamshire or Wing in Rutland. The Buckinghamshire placename probably means ‘the people of Wiwa’, from an Old English personal name Wiwa + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. The Rutland placename and probably derives from Old Norse vengi ‘field’.
Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 榮, see Rong 4.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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