Brief Life History of James Sturgis
When James Sturgis Bryant was born on 12 November 1820, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, David Mason Bryant, was 28 and his mother, Mary Bliss, was 28. He married Olive Marther Adams on 18 May 1846, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1850. He died on 20 December 1884, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Northeast, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- James L Bryant, "United States Census, 1850"
- James Sturgiss Bryant, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- James S. Bryant, "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997"
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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.
1829 · Farmington Canal Opened
Farmington Canal spans 2,476 acres, starting from New Haven, Connecticut, and on to Northampton, Massachusetts. The groundbreaking for the canal was in 1825 and opened in 1829.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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