Brief Life History of John Sandersen
When John Sandersen Twiss was born on 20 June 1820, in Rindge, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Daniel Twiss, was 32 and his mother, Lucy Sanderson, was 30. He married Naamah Kendel Jenkins Carter on 30 May 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. He died on 10 September 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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- John Sandersen Twiss, "Illinois, Hancock County, Nauvoo Community Project, 1839-1846 (BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy)"
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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.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire):
habitational name from Twiss in Lancashire, named from Old English (ge)twis ‘forking’, used as a noun to mean ‘fork in a river’.
variant of Twist .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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