Alice Jane Sheldon
1820–
United States
The Life Summary of Alice Jane
When Alice Jane Sheldon was born in 1820, in United States, her father, Ephraim Sheldon, was 37 and her mother, Dorothy Draper, was 39.
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Family Time Line
Ephraim Sheldon
1783–1868
Dorothy Draper
1781–1832
Draper Sheldon
1810–
Joseph D. Sheldon
1827–
Hannah G. Sheldon
1811–
Herman G. Sheldon
1814–
Alice Jane Sheldon
1820–
Jane Sheldon
1823–1854
Parents and Siblings
1783–1868Male
1781–1832Female
Siblings
(6)
1811–Female
1810–Male
1814–Male
1820–Female
1823–1854Female
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World Events (3)
1820 · Making States Equal
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1820 · Making States Equal
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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.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
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1820 · Making Land more affordable
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"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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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: habitational name in most cases from Sheldon in Derbyshire, but sometimes from Sheldon in Warwickshire or Devon, or from Sheldon in Chippenham (Wiltshire). The Derbyshire place, recorded in Domesday Book as Scelhadun, probably takes its name from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + the placename Haddon, itself from Old English hǣth ‘heath’ + dūn ‘hill’. The Warwickshire and Wiltshire placenames probably derive from Old English scelf + dūn, while the Devon placename probably comes from Old English scelf + denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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