Brief Life History of Elizabeth J.
When Elizabeth J. Black was born about 1827, in Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Daniel Black, was 28 and her mother, Harriet Rollins, was 23. She married Timothy F. Griffin on 22 December 1845, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1860 and Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 17 May 1897, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Elisabeth Griffin in household of Timothy Griffin, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elizabeth J. Griffin, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Elizabeth J. Black Tubbs, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
1833 · First Public Library Founded in Petersborough
In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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