When Columbus Bernard Franklin was born on 15 March 1806, in Surry, North Carolina, United States, his father, Meshack Franklin, was 32 and his mother, Mildred Matilda Edwards, was 21. He married Ann Amelia Gwyn about 1840, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Elkin Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and Fayette, Tennessee, United States in 1860. He died on 30 January 1866, in Early Grove, Marshall, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Early Grove, Marshall, Mississippi, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Mississippi is the 20th state.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
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