Brief Life History of Comfort
When Comfort Taylor was born about 1818, in Byron, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, George Washington Taylor, was 24 and her mother, Abigail R Bacon, was 17.
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Sources (4)
- Birth, marriage and death records of Malden, Mass
- Marriage of William Harrison Walton and Frances N. Taylor of Mexico, MaineByron town records, film 007595323 page 124
- Maine records
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World Events (3)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
1833
Historical Boundaries: 1833: Oxford, Maine, United States
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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