Brief Life History of Malana
When Malana Sampson was born on 1 November 1819, in Huron, Ohio, United States, her father, Ezekiel Sampson, was 26 and her mother, Mary Polly Merrifield, was 31. She died on 30 May 1820, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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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.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
"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."
Name Meaning
English, Welsh, and Jewish: variant of Samson . The -p- was introduced in the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name Shimshon.
English: of Norman origin, a habitational name from any of the French places called Saint-Samson (Seine-Maritime, Calvados), including Saint-Samson-de-Bonfosse (Manche) and Saint-Samson-de-la-Roque (Eure), so called from the dedication of their churches to Saint Samson of Dol, the Welsh bishop (see Samson ).
Americanized form of French, Breton, German, and Dutch Samson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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