When Mary Ann Merrill was born on 2 June 1819, in Southold, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States, her father, Valentine Merrill, was 36 and her mother, Lydia Sisson, was 32. She married Orson Pratt on 27 March 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1851 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1903. She died on 12 December 1903, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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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.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
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