Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Maxim was born on 27 April 1820, in Wayne, Kennebec, Maine, United States, her father, Seth Maxim, was 34 and her mother, Mary Raymond, was 31. She died on 27 April 1822, in her hometown, at the age of 2.
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- Martha Maxim, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martha Maxham -
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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: apparently from the (unrecorded) Middle English personal name Maxim of Latin origin (see 2 below).
Romanian: from the personal name Maxim, from Latin Maximus ‘greatest’ (superlative of magnus ‘great’; compare Magnus ), borne by a number of early Christian saints.
American shortened form of Serbian Maksimović (see Maksimovic ), a patronymic from the personal name Maksim (see 2 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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