When Hemon Willson was born on 14 December 1800, in Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Joseph Wilson, was 28 and his mother, Orpha Davis, was 20. He died on 23 June 1873, at the age of 72, and was buried in Elizabethtown, Essex, New York, United States.
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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.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English (eastern): variant of Wilson .
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