When David A. Haskins was born about 1804, in New York, United States, his father, Nathaniel Haskins, was 37 and his mother, Lydia Stevens, was 27. He married Clafira Robinson on 14 August 1820. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Leroy, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States in 1850. He died in 1873, in Jackson, Adams, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 70.
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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.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
English: variant of Haskin , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Ó hUiscín; see Haskin . More probably, however, it is an altered form of a diminutive of Fuarghus, a personal name meaning ‘cold vigor’.
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