Brief Life History of Erastus Conkey
When Erastus Conkey Thompson was born on 8 December 1803, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Isaac Thompson, was 24 and his mother, Rebecca Conkey, was 15. He married Sarah Harknes Gray on 31 August 1830, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1870. He died on 8 March 1870, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Erastus C Thompson, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Eastus Conkey Thompson, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Erastus C. Thompson, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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