When Ruth Leavitt was born about 1802, in Effingham, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Carr Leavitt, was 25 and her mother, Lydia Smith, was 25. She married Isaac Cate in 1824, in Effingham, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
In 1833, the oldest tax-supported public library in the world was established by Reverend Abiel Abbot.
English:
(of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).
habitational name from any of various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.
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