When Hepsibah Abbey was born on 11 January 1819, in Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Amasa Abbe, was 49 and her mother, Huldah Pettingale, was 42. She married Samuel Davis on 1 December 1841, in Derby, Orleans, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Orange, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States in 1870.
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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.
The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then "The West". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English:
from Anglo-Norman and Middle English abbeye, abbaye ‘abbey’, i.e. a community of monks under an abbot or of nuns under an abbess (Old French abeie, Late Latin abbatia ‘priest's house’), applied as a topographic name for someone living in or near an abbey, or an occupational name for someone working in one.
(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French abé, abbé ‘priest’. See also French Labbe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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