When Mary Jane Merrill was born on 2 May 1823, in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonathan Merrill, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Clark, was 24. She married Eliphalet Daniel Gale on 26 June 1850, in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States in 1850. She died on 28 June 1906, in Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Methuen, Essex, Massachusetts, 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.
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Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
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