When Amanda Delilah Richey was born on 19 October 1819, in Spencer, Kentucky, United States, her father, Isaac Richey, was 27 and her mother, Catherine Richey, was 22. She married James Alexander Patterson on 21 November 1836, in Taylorsville, Spencer, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 10 October 1855, in McLean, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 35.
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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.
"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."
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich ), or from the female personal name Rikheit, from rīc + suffix -heit ‘way of being’. This surname is rare in Germany.
Probably also an Americanized form of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).
English and northern Irish: variant of Ritchie .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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