When Joseph Saunders Kempton was born on 23 August 1820, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jonathan Kempton, was 37 and his mother, Mehitable Sanders, was 35. He married Lucinda Butler Thomas on 20 March 1842, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Strong, Franklin, Maine, United States for about 10 years. He died on 2 February 1906, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Farmington, Franklin, Maine, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1838: Franklin, Maine, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (southeastern):
perhaps occasionally a habitational name from a place called Kempton in Shropshire, named from an Old English personal name Cempa + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
variant of Kimpton .
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