When Erastus Gardner Spaulding was born on 13 June 1814, in Newbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Warren Spaulding, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Graves, was 23. He married Harriet Fisher on 11 November 1839, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States in 1860 and Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 7 years. He died on 3 January 1867, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 52.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Scottish (Aberdeenshire) and English (Cambridgeshire and Norfolk): habitational name from Spalding (Lincolnshire), from Old English Spaldas, the name of an Anglian tribe who settled chiefly in the fen-lands of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, + the groupname suffix -ingas. Compare Spafford .
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