When Julia Alexena Wentworth Bixby was born on 30 April 1819, in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Luther Bixby, was 47 and her mother, Susanna B Wentworth, was 38. She married Laban Burt on 28 November 1843, in Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years and Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died on 12 January 1888, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 68.
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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."
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English:
habitational name from Wentworth in Yorkshire. The placename probably derives from the Old English personal name Wintra + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
habitational name from Wentworth in Cambridgeshire, which has the same etymology as the placename in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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