When Melissa Bourland was born about 1822, in Franklin, Arkansas, United States, her father, Dubart Lee Bourland, was 20 and her mother, Mary Thomas, was 18. She died in 1822, in her hometown, at the age of 1.
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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.
English (Hampshire): variant of Burland . This surname is now rare in Britain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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