When Lawson Lathrop was born in 1802, in Vermont, United States, his father, John Lathrop, was 41 and his mother, Azubah Putnam, was 35. He died in 1819, in Windsor, Vermont, United States, at the age of 17.
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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.
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English: perhaps a variant of Laythorpe, a habitational name from Laythorpe, the former name of a settlement in Lincolnshire which is recorded as Ledulftorp in 1086 and Leilthorp in the 12th century. The placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Leithulfr + Old Norse thorp ‘secondary settlement, outlying farmstead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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