When Abigail Bellows Kelsey was born about 1809, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, her father, Joseph Bellows, was 47 and her mother, Mrs. Joseph Bellows, was 44. She married Levi Davis Kelsey about 1826, in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died in March 1865, at the age of 57, and was buried in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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