When Harriet P. Risley was born on 18 April 1819, in Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States, her father, Elizur Risley, was 39 and her mother, Amelia Matson, was 38. She married Samuel C. Niles in 1834. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States in 1870 and Lexington, Lexington Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States in 1880. She died on 7 March 1884, in Sanilac, Michigan, United States, at the age of 64.
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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.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: habitational name from Risley in Winwick (Lancashire), Risley (Derbyshire), Riseley (Bedfordshire), or Riseley Farm in Swallowfield (Berkshire). The placenames derive from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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