When Prudence Towson Sater was born on 25 November 1743, in Chestnut Ridge, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, Henry Sater, was 54 and her mother, Dorcas Osage Towson, was 23. She married Benjamin Howard on 21 September 1762, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 22 September 1822, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States.
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Americanized form of Norwegian Sæter: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Sæter, from Old Norse sætr ‘farmstead’ or setr ‘mountain summer farm’.
Polish: unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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