Brief Life History of Harriet
When Harriet Stanley was born in 1839, in Cranberry Isles, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Stanley III, was 51 and her mother, Margaret Stanley, was 42. She married Dudley B. Doliver on 24 December 1868, in Tremont, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Maine, United States in 1870 and Tremont, Hancock, Maine, United States for about 20 years. She died on 6 May 1901, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 62.
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- Hattie S Newman in household of William S Newman, "United States Census, 1900"
- Harriet Stanley, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Harriet S. Newman, "Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910"
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1842 · Webster–Ashburton Treaty
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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