When Mercy Murray Day was born on 23 November 1801, in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joel Day, was 42 and her mother, Martha Murray, was 40. She married Amos Naramore on 6 September 1824, in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. She died in 1873, in Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
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.
English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMercy Murray Day was born on 23 November 1801 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts to Joel and Martha Murray Day. She was the youngest of eleven children, five girls and six boys, all born in Massachu …
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