When Franklin Benjamin Carleton was born on 28 November 1800, in Groton, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Solomon Carleton, was 27 and his mother, Abigail Haven, was 22. He married Francis Willard on 28 January 1824, in Louisville, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Saint Lawrence, Cape Vincent, Jefferson, New York, United States in 1860 and Michigan, United States in 1870. He died on 26 May 1873, at the age of 72.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The Territory of Michigan was organized as an incorporated territory of the United States on June 30, 1805, with Detroit as the territorial capital.
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.
English (northern and eastern England): variant of Carlton .
Irish (Ulster): adopted in Northern Ireland as an Anglicized form of Ó Cairealláin, see Carolan 2.
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