Brief Life History of Levi
When Levi Miles was born on 5 April 1802, in Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Thomas Miles, was 29 and his mother, Ruth Brooks, was 28. He married Mary Ann Heywood on 25 February 1825, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 15 years. He died on 20 September 1874, in Melrose, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Levi Miles, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Levi Miles, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Levi Miles, "Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803 · The U.S doubles in size
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
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.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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