When Timothy F. Griffin was born on 15 February 1820, in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Timothy Griffin, was 35 and his mother, Sarah True, was 34. He married Elizabeth J. Black on 22 December 1845, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 16 April 1877, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 57.
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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.
In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Welsh: from the personal name Gruffin, Griffin, a pet form of Middle Welsh Gruffudd. In the Welsh border counties this name was introduced directly from Welsh, and in the eastern counties of England by Bretons from France who came over with the Norman conquest.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Gríobhtha ‘descendant of Gríobhtha’, a personal name from gríobh ‘gryphon’.
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