When Peter Ballantyne was born on 15 June 1811, in Scotland, his father, David Ballantyne, was 62 and his mother, Ann Bannerman, was 24. He married Jane Taylor on 1 April 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 18 September 1893, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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.
Scottish: variant of Ballentine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesEntry from brother, Richard Ballentyne's journal: "From thence my mother, sister Jane and sister Annie went by way of Glasgow to Liverpool, while I parted from them here, and went to Dumfries for my b …
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