Brief Life History of Minerva
When Minerva Leonard was born on 10 June 1806, in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Ezekiel Leonard, was 31 and her mother, Rachel Felton, was 26. She married Lorenzo Billings on 16 February 1828. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States in 1865 and Greenwich, Greenwich Township, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States in 1871. She died on 6 September 1871, at the age of 65, and was buried in Quabbin Park Cemetery, Ware, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Minerva Billings in household of Lorenzo Billings, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Minerva Leonard, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Minerva Billings, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1820
On January 28, 1820, the New Jersey Legislature incorporated the City of Jersey from parts of the Bergen Township. The city would be reincorporated two more times (January 23, 1829 and February 22, 1838) before receiving its official name. Jersey City became part of the new Hudson County in February of 1840.
1825 · The Crimes Act
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.
Name Meaning
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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