Brief Life History of Priscilla
When Priscilla Newton was born in July 1830, in New York, United States, her father, Arad Newton, was 30 and her mother, Susanna Wells, was 25. She married Freeman Andrews from 1860 to 1862, in Lisbon, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hermon, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1880 and Edwards, Edwards, St. Lawrence, New York, United States in 1900. She died before 1900.
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- Prisilla Andrews in household of Framan Andrews, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Priscilla Newton - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Priscilla Newton
- Percilla Andrews in household of Freeman Andrews, "United States Census, 1880"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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