Brief Life History of Margaret
When Margaret March was born about 1814, in Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Marsh, was 33 and her mother, Annis Allis, was 31.
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
1820 · Making Land more affordable
The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then "The West". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from March (Cambridgeshire) or from any of numerous minor English placenames deriving from Middle English marche ‘boundary’ (partly from Old English mearc in the dative-case form mearce, partly from Old French marche). Compare Mark 2.
Catalan: from the personal name March, Catalan equivalent of Mark 1. This surname is also found in southern France.
German: topographic name from Middle Low German march, Middle High German marc(h) ‘mark, sign, boundary’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word (Bavaria).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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