Brief Life History of Jesse Walker
When Jesse Walker Johnstun was born on 21 January 1820, in Rush Creek Township, Fairfield, Ohio, United States, his father, James Johnstun, was 35 and his mother, Amity Welch, was 35. He married Betsy Ann Snyder on 28 March 1848, in Andrew, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States in 1839. He died on 8 May 1860, in Parleys Park, Summit, Utah, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule: Jesse Walker Johnstun
- Legacy NFS Source: Jesse Walker Johnstun - Individual or family possessions: birth: 21 January 1820; Rush Creek Township, Fairfield, Ohio, United States
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Pike, Illinois, United States 1825: Adams, Illinois, United States
1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name, deriving in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, in Dumfriesshire. This is derived from the genitive case of the personal name John + + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn). There are other places in Scotland so called, including the city of Perth, which used to be known as Saint John's Toun, and some of these may also be sources of the surname.
English: habitational name from Johnson Hall (Staffordshire), recorded as Johannestonc. 1233 and Joneston in 1314. The placename means ‘John's settlement’, from the genitive case of the Middle English personal name Johan, Jon (see John ) + Middle English ton ‘town, village, settlement’.
History: As far as can be ascertained, most Scottish bearers of this surname are descendants of John, probably a Norman baron from England, who held lands at Johnstone in Annandale from the Bruce family in the late 12th century. His son Gilbert was the first to take the surname Johnstone and their descendants later held the earldom of Annandale.
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