When Sally Maria Stocker was born on 3 January 1804, in Williamsville, Amherst, Erie, New York, United States, her father, Levi Stocker, was 25 and her mother, Thankful Fairchild, was 19. She married Luther Spalding on 30 January 1823. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Amherst, Amherst, Erie, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 28 October 1867, in Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 63.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Established in 1818
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.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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