Sarah Leigh

Femaleabout 1787–

Brief Life History of Sarah

When Sarah Leigh was born about 1787, in Georgia, United States, her father, Lionel Leigh, was 20 and her mother, Keziah Wood, was 17.

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Lionel Leigh
1768–1833
Keziah Wood
1772–1819
Sarah Leigh
1787–
Mary Leigh
1789–1866
Lucy Levicy Leigh
1790–1864
Ann Leigh
1792–
Henry Leigh
1796–
Nancy Leigh
1794–1868
James Joyce Leigh
1795–1839

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    World Events (3)

    1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

    Age 0

    The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

    1788 · The First Presidential Election

    Age 1

    The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.

    1795 · Yazoo Land Fraud

    Age 8

    As Georgia had been weakened during the Revolutionary War, it was unable to defend its Yazoo lands, or land west of the Yazoo River. Thirty-five million acres were sold to four companies for $500,000 as Governor George Mathews signed the Yazoo Act on January 7, 1795. Angry Georgians protested in the streets as they felt bribery and corruption were involved and the sale was far below market value. The legislation tried to rescind the Yazoo Act, but much of the land had been sold to third parties. The issue made its way to the United States Supreme Court and it was determined that rescinding the law was an unconstitutional infringement on a legal contract. The government took full possession of the territory by 1814 and awarded its claimants over $4,000,000.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of numerous places (in at least sixteen counties, but especially Leigh in Lancashire) named either with the nominative case of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’ (see Lee ) or with lēage, a late dative form of this word (see Lye ).

    Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 李, based on its Cantonese pronunciation. See Li 1.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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