When Martin Hawk was born on 23 December 1820, in Hardy, West Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob Hawk, was 27 and his mother, Sidney Reel, was 22. He married Nancy Burroughs about 1841, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Denver, Colorado, United States in 1902. In 1700, his occupation is listed as grist mill in Hardy, Virginia, United States. He died on 19 October 1902, in Denver, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
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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.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: nickname from Middle English havoc, havek, hauk ‘hawk or falcon’ (Old English hafoc). It may have been given to a professional falconer, to someone of a savage or cruel disposition, or to someone who held land by providing hawks for his lord, as in an instance from 1130, where Ralph Hauoc owed the royal Exchequer two ‘girfals’ (i.e. gyrfalcons or hawks).
English: topographic name for a ‘(dweller in) the nook or corner’, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc).
English: possibly also a survival into Middle English of the Old English personal name Hafoc, which was originally a nickname from the word ‘hawk, falcon’. It seems to have died out of use as a personal name by c. 1250.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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