When Joseph F. Kinsey was born on 3 March 1802, in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Wesley Kinsey Sr, was 26 and his mother, Elvira Mannie Jones, was 32. He married Caroline M Stanley in 1822, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Jefferson, Florida, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 March 1869, in Aucilla, Jefferson, Florida, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Kinsey Cemetery, Monticello, Jefferson, Florida, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The Walton War was a border dispute between Georgia and North Carolina, when Georgia established Walton County. The main piece of land being fought over was called the Orphan Strip and was located between North Carolina and Georgia. It started in 1804 and became part of the War of 1812 and lasted until 1818.
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: from the Middle English personal name Kynsey (Old English Cynesige from cyne- ‘royal’ + sige ‘victory’).
Possibly also an Americanized form of Swiss German Künzi (see Kuenzi ).
History: The paternal grandfather of NJ and PA legislator John Kinsey (1693–1750) was one of the commissioners sent out from England in 1677 by the West Jersey proprietors to buy land from the Indians and to lay out a town. John was the leader of the Quaker party in the PA assembly and chief justice of the PA supreme court.
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