When Hilon Mead was born on 3 April 1801, in Underhill, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, his father, Ezra Mead, was 34 and his mother, Hannah Jane Sampson, was 30. He married Lydia Minerva Barnes on 23 October 1823, in Licking, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wayne Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 25 September 1876, in Sigourney, Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Sigourney Township, Keokuk, Iowa, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
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:
topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English mǣd), or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Meads in Harford (Devon).
perhaps from Middle English mede ‘mead, alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water’, possibly denoting one who was fond of the drink or who made or sold mead. Compare Meader .
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