Brief Life History of Charles
When Charles Lamb was born on 4 December 1799, in Wells, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, Rev Shubael Lamb Sr, was 28 and his mother, Clarisa Bushnell, was 19. He married Elizabeth Grover on 15 March 1831, in Wells, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Middletown Springs, Rutland, Vermont, United States for about 10 years and Vermont, United States in 1870. He died on 11 December 1876, in Middletown, Andover, Windsor, Vermont, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Middletown Springs Cemetery, Middletown Springs, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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- Chas Lamb, "United States Census, 1860"
- Charles Lamb, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Chas Lamb, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Lamb, a pet form of Lambert .
English: nickname for a meek and inoffensive person, from Middle English lamb, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of lambs. See also Lamm .
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of the warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan (see Lane 3). MacLysaght comments: "The form Lamb(e), which results from a more than usually absurd pseudo-translation (uan ‘lamb’), is now much more numerous than O'Loan itself.".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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