Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Hawkins was born on 4 July 1800, in Orange, New York, United States, his father, Moses Hawkins, was 37 and his mother, Phebe Harlow, was 32. He married Emelina Smith Webb on 15 December 1824. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Goshen, Goshen, Orange, New York, United States in 1875 and Goshen, Orange, New York, United States in 1880. He died on 28 June 1880, at the age of 79, and was buried in Hamptonburgh Cemetery, Campbell Hall, Hamptonburgh, Orange, New York, United States.
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- Samal Hawkins, "United States Census, 1880"
- Samuel Hawkins, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"
- Samuel Hawkins, "Find A Grave Index"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
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.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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