When Dorcas Roberts was born on 19 April 1803, in Hancock, Massachusetts, United States, her father, James Roberts, was 32 and her mother, Sarah Hall, was 30. She married Priam Pease on 28 November 1820, in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Weber, Utah, United States in 1860 and Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 20 October 1872, in Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Uintah Cemetery, Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
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: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
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