When Lucy Fickett was born on 4 April 1839, in Woodstock, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Jonathan Fickett Jr., was 29 and her mother, Betsey B. Fuller, was 18. She married Charles W. Stephens on 8 May 1892, in Paris, Oxford, Maine, United States. She died on 20 June 1912, in Paris, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 73.
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Fitchett .
Possibly an Americanized form of German Fickert .
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