When Priscilla Compton was born on 18 August 1824, in Pike, Wyoming, New York, United States, her father, Hugh Compton, was 28 and her mother, Allynda Burt, was 26. She married Amos Densmore on 25 September 1847. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She lived in Woodcock, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Mead Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 February 1893, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Fresh Pond, Queens, New York, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1841: Wyoming, New York, United States
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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