When Herman C Maxwell was born in 1808, in New York, United States, his father, Alexander Maxwell, was 28 and his mother, Ruth Thayer, was 27. He married Paulina Ballard about 1828. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nora, Jo Daviess, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Eagle Point, Ogle, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died in 1883, in Red Oak, Montgomery, Iowa, United States, at the age of 75.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
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.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Kelso, near Melrose in Roxburghshire, the name of a salmon pool on the Tweed near Kelso Bridge. The placename is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack's spring or stream’ (Old English well(a)).
Irish: adopted for Ó Meisceall, see Miskell . This surname is common in Ulster.
Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
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