Brief Life History of Martin Flowers
When Martin Flowers Allen was born on 24 January 1820, in Madrid, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, his father, Henry A. Allen, was 43 and his mother, Orma Lockwood Powers, was 33. He married Anna Landon in 1841, in Saint Lawrence, Cape Vincent, Jefferson, New York, United States. He lived in Harmony, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Jefferson, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. He died on 31 March 1900, in Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Viroqua Cemetery, Viroqua, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Martin Allin, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martin F Allen - birth: 1820; New York, United States
- Martin F. Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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.
1827 · Slavery Becomes Illegal in New York State
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Alain, Alein (Old Breton Alan), from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan. From 1139 it was common in Scotland, where the surname also derives from Gaelic Ailéne, Ailín, from ail ‘rock’. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland. Saint Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany. Another Saint Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated.
English: occasionally perhaps from the rare Middle English femaje personal name Aline (Old French Adaline, Aaline), a pet form of ancient Germanic names in Adal-, especially Adalheidis (see Allis ).
French: variant of Allain , a cognate of 1 above, and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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