Brief Life History of Mark Packard
When Mark Packard Foster was born on 30 March 1812, in Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Job Foster, was 25 and his mother, Hannah Packard, was 22. He married Sarah Clapp Nash in January 1840, in Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 24 October 1848, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mark Foster, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Mark P. Foster, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Mark Foster in entry for Foster, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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