When Sarah Adeline Colburn was born on 31 July 1820, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Robert Colburn, was 45 and her mother, Kezia Wright, was 44. She married Harvey Alphonso Powers on 7 March 1839, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and New Hampshire, United States in 1870. She died on 9 April 1896, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in East Cemetery, Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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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.
Oldest grave seen on memorials.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
habitational name usually from Colburn in Catterick (North Yorkshire), named from Old English cōl ‘cool’ or col ‘coal’+ burna ‘stream’ (often confused with Old Norse brunnr ‘spring, stream’), but sometimes perhaps from a minor place so named, such as Coalburn in South Wingfield (Derbyshire) or Coldbourne in Bramley (Surrey).
from the Middle English personal name Colborn, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Kolbiǫrn, Kolbiorn, from kol ‘coal’ + biǫrn ‘bear’.
variant of Colbran, from the Middle English personal name Colbrand (Old Norse Kolbrandr, Kolbrand, from kol ‘coal’ + brandr ‘sword-blade, firebrand’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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