Brief Life History of Michael
When Michael Adams Libby was born on 19 March 1819, in Limington, York, Maine, United States, his father, John Adams Libby, was 29 and his mother, Abigail Sawyer, was 33. He married Rebecca Frances Copeland on 6 November 1843, in Thomaston, Knox, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 5 years.
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- Michl Libby, "Massachusetts State Census, 1865"
- Michael Libby, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Michael Gibby, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"
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1820
Maine is the 23rd state.
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.
1860 · Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, and German (mainly northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam . In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Greek Adamopoulos , Serbian and Croatian Adamović (see Adamovich ), Polish (and Jewish) Adamski .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for McAdam or a Scottish variant of Adam , with excrescent -s.
History: This surname was borne by two early presidents of the US, father and son. They were descended from Henry Adams, who settled in Braintree, MA, in 1635/6, from Barton St. David, Somerset, England. The younger of them, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) derived his middle name from his maternal grandmother's surname (see Quincy ). — Another important New England family, established mainly in NH, is descended from William Adams, who emigrated from Shropshire, England, to Dedham, MA, in 1628. James Hopkins Adams (1812–61), governor of SC, was unconnected with either of these families, his ancestry being Welsh; his forebears entered North America through PA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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