When Maria Louisa Call was born on 18 November 1808, in Colrain, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joel Call, was 23 and her mother, Elizabeth Totman, was 21. She married Orpheus Purinton about 1827. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 7 September 1849, in Truxton, Cortland, New York, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Apulia Cemetery, Truxton, Cortland, New York, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
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.
Irish: shortened form of McCall .
English: from Middle English calle, cale (Old English cawl) ‘container, basket, net’, commonly used of a kind of hair net, close-fitting cap, or headdress worn by women to cover tied-up hair. The name could have been given as a metonymic occupational name to a maker of women's caps or perhaps of baskets or nets.
English: alternatively, perhaps a nickname from Middle English cale (also calle), a side form of calwe ‘bald’ (from Old English calu).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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