Brief Life History of Ziba
When Ziba Peterson was born in 1810, in New York, United States, his father, John Peterson, was 41 and his mother, Phebe Tanner, was 35. He married Rebecca Hopper on 11 August 1831, in Lafayette, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 7 daughters. He died in May 1849, in Placerville, El Dorado, California, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Old Placerville City Cemetery, Placerville, El Dorado, California, United States.
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- Zeba B Peterson, "United States Census, 1840"
- Ziby Peterson, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Peterson, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
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.
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, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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