Brief Life History of Ellen Maria
When Ellen Maria Howell was born on 25 December 1820, in New York, United States, her father, Benjamin Betterton Howell, was 34 and her mother, Frances Howell, was 29. She married Whiting Griswold on 12 September 1843, in Gloucester, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States for about 10 years and Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1910. She died on 3 March 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States.
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- Ellen M Griswold, "United States Census, 1850"
- Ellen Maria Howell Griswold, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ellem W. Griswolt, "United States Census, 1880"
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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
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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