When Riggleman was born in 1820, in Virginia, United States, her father, John William Riggleman II, was 24 and her mother, Sarah “Sally” Mason, was 16. She died in 1820, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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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.
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
Americanized form of German Riegelmann: topographic name for a farmer owning a long strip of land or for someone who lived near a watershed or a mountain blocking a valley.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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