Isaac Black

Brief Life History of Isaac

When Isaac Black was born on 20 September 1824, in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Captain Joab Black, was 42 and his mother, Thankful Snow, was 39.

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Family Time Line

Captain Joab Black
1781–1859
Thankful Snow
1785–1870
Ruth Black
1801–1878
Olive L. Black
1803–
Rosella C Black
1804–1894
Joab Black Jr.
1806–1887
Samuel Black
1808–1882
John F. Black
1810–
Frederick Black
1811–
Shederick Black
1813–1876
Thomas Black
1813–
Aaron Black
1815–1878
David Walter Black
1817–
Lucy Herrick Black
1820–1823
Melissa Black
1823–
Thankful Black
1823–1823
Isaac Black
1824–

Sources (4)

  • Isaac Black in household of Joab Black, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Isaac Black, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Isaac Black - residence: null; about 1850; Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, United States

World Events (8)

1825 · The Crimes Act

The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.

1832 · Calais Branch is Chartered

The State of Maine chartered the Calais Railway in 1832, one of the first railway charters to be granted by the state. Construction was very long, as the project was reorganized, abandoned, transferred to other companies, and extended several times. It was finally completed in 1898.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .

Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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