Brief Life History of Wilkins Jenkins
When Wilkins Jenkins Salisbury was born on 6 January 1809, in Rushville, Potter, Yates, New York, United States, his father, Gideon Salisbury Jr., was 45 and his mother, Elizabeth Shields, was 41. He married Katharine Smith on 8 June 1831, in Kirtland Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hancock Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 28 October 1853, in Plymouth, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Webster, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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- W P Salsbury, "United States Census, 1850"
- Jenkins Sallsbury, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Wilkins Jenkins Salisbury, "Find A Grave Index"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name primarily from Salesbury in Blackburn (Lancashire) but also occasionally from Salisbury (Wiltshire). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English salh ‘willow, sallow’ + burg ‘fortress’, while the Wiltshire placename arises from a shortened form of the Celtic placename Sorviodunum (from an unknown initial element + Celtic dūno- ‘fort’). In the Old English period the second element was dropped and Sorvio- (of unexplained etymology) became Searo- in Old English as the result of folk etymological association the Old English word searu ‘trick’; to this an explanatory burh ‘fortress, manor, town’ was added. The city is recorded in the Domesday Book as Sarisberie; the change of -r- to -l- is the result of later dissimilation.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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