Lorenzo Black

Brief Life History of Lorenzo

When Lorenzo Black was born on 16 April 1823, in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, David I Black, was 32 and his mother, Ruth Gray, was 25. He lived in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine, United States in 1850.

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Family Time Line

David I Black
1791–1879
Ruth Gray
1797–1881
Salome Lambson Black
1817–
Jarome Black
1820–1847
Matilda Ann Black
1821–1895
Lorenza Black
1823–1877
Lorenzo Black
1823–
Olive Black
1824–
Ruth Black
1828–1915
Armena Black
1831–
Diana Black
1833–1865
David Rodney Black Sr.
1836–1894
Alvecia Black
1840–
Valentine Black
1844–1864
Lucy Black
1846–1860

Sources (2)

  • Lorenzo Black in household of David Black, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Lorenzo Black, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"

World Events (8)

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.

1832 · Calais Branch is Chartered

The State of Maine chartered the Calais Railway in 1832, one of the first railway charters to be granted by the state. Construction was very long, as the project was reorganized, abandoned, transferred to other companies, and extended several times. It was finally completed in 1898.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .

Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .

Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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