When Sally Penn was born on 15 May 1800, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, her father, Joseph Roscoe Penn, was 31 and her mother, Sally King, was 30. She married John Barton in 1817, in Lebanon, St. Clair, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 11 May 1882, in Paragonah, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Parowan Cemetery, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States.
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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.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: habitational name from either of two places called Penn (in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire), both of which are named with Brittonic penn ‘head’, often used in hill-names.
English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English pen(n) ‘enclosure, animal pen, fold’ (Old English penn), for someone who lived by or worked at a fold. Examples of this surname are formally difficult to distinguish from those in 1 above.
English: from a pet form of the female personal name Pernel, see Parnell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesLIFE OF SALLY PENN BARTON & JOHN SAMUEL BARTON (Copied from Arta Barton Smith, Lehi, Utah — April 1962) Facts taken from the Family Record of William P. Barton, a grandson, and verbal informati …
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