When Abraham Gordon Blethen was born on 22 October 1820, in Franklin, Maine, United States, his father, Benjamin W. Blethen, was 23 and his mother, Sarah Gordon, was 21. He married Susan Delphia Tapp on 9 October 1858, in Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Malden, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 25 February 1891, in Fayette, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Powellton, Fayette, West Virginia, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1838: Franklin, Maine, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Welsh: from the Middle Welsh personal name Blethyn (Old Welsh Bledgint, from bleid ‘wolf’ + apparently the mutated form of cint ‘first’), or an Anglicized form of ap Blethyn ‘son of Blethyn’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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