When George Simpson was born on 26 September 1800, in East Machias, Washington, Maine, United States, his father, William Simpson Sr, was 33 and his mother, Dorothy Clark, was 26. He married Mary Foster Maxwell on 3 October 1824, in York, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in York, York, Maine, United States in 1850. He died on 11 September 1875, in Cape Neddick, York, York, Maine, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Simpson (George Simpson) Lot Cemetery, Cape Neddick, York, York, Maine, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
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.
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
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