When John Hand Jr. was born on 17 August 1807, in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York, United States, his father, John Hand Sr., was 35 and his mother, Hulda, was 28. He married Magdaline Marple on 11 December 1834, in Licking, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in McKean Township, Licking, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 4 May 1857, in Licking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Marple Cemetery, Chatham, Licking, Ohio, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
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.
English, German, and Dutch: nickname for someone with a peculiarity or deformity of the hand or perhaps to skill in its use, from Middle English hond(e), hand(e), Middle High German hant, found in such appellations as Johan metter hant (Rijkhoven 1284), Liebhard mit der Hand (Augsburg 1383).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German Hand ‘hand’ (see 1 above).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh (see Guthrie ), as a result of association with the Gaelic word lámh ‘hand’. It is used as an English equivalent for several other names of Gaelic origin too, such as Claffey , Glavin , and McClave .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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