When Ichabod Russell Lancaster was born on 13 March 1819, in Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine, United States, his father, Ebenezer Lancaster, was 38 and his mother, Betsey Russell, was 33. He married Mary Ellen Ireland on 8 November 1859. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Maine, United States in 1870 and Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, United States in 1900. He died on 10 March 1904, in Newport, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Newport, Penobscot, Maine, United States.
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Maine is the 23rd state.
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 Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).
English: habitational name from Lancaster in northwestern England, which is recorded as Loncastre in 1086. The place takes its name from the river Lune + Old English ceaster ‘city, Roman fortification’ (from Latin castra ‘legionary camp’). The river name is probably British, perhaps related to Gaelic slán ‘healthy’, ‘salubrious’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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