Brief Life History of Harriet
From Ancestry.com: Harriet Morse In the Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915 Name: Harriet Morse [Harriet Knapp] Gender: Female Race: White Age: 85 Birth Date: abt 1820 Birth Place: Salem, Massachusetts Death Date: 11 May 1905 Death Place: Manchester, Massachusetts, USA Father: Isaac Knapp Mother: Elizabeth Bickford
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- Harriet Morse in household of James Morse, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harriet Knapp - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Harriet Knapp
- Harriet Knap, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
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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.
1821 · Essex Historical Society
On June 11, 1821, the Essex Historical Society was incorporated.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).
German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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