Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Moss was born on 25 August 1807, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Moses Moss Jr, was 44 and his mother, Ann Brooks Ives, was 30. He married Rebecca Merriam on 4 June 1835, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He died on 3 July 1856, in his hometown, at the age of 48, and was buried in East Farms Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Joseph Map, "United States Census, 1850"
- Joseph Moss, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Joseph Moss, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English mos ‘moss, bog’ (Old English mos), for someone who lived at a boggy place, or a habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as Moss (Yorkshire), Mose in Quatford (Shropshire), and Moze (Essex).
English: variant of Moyse .
Irish (Ulster): adoption of the English name 1 by translation for Ó Maolmóna or Ó Maolmhóna ‘descendant of Maolmóna’, a personal name based on maol ‘servant, tonsured one, i.e. devotee’ + a second element assumed to be móin (genitive móna) ‘moorland, peat bog’, in local English ‘moss’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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