Brief Life History of Richard Harrison
When Richard Harrison Carter was born on 8 August 1820, in Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States, his father, John Carter, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Knight Libby, was 33. He married Hannah Parker on 29 November 1840, in Lima, Adams, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839. He registered for military service in 1846. He died on 28 November 1846, in Socorro, Socorro, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Socorro, Socorro, New Mexico, United States.
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- Richard Harrison Carter - birth record from Original Newry, Maine Town Records
- Richard Carter, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Mormon Battalion Company B return list: Richard Harrison Carter
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
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.
1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, from Middle English carter(e) ‘carter’ (Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, Old French charetier, medieval Latin carettarius, carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Irish: shortened form of McCarter .
Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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