When Abigail Alger was born about 1757, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Alger, was 50 and her mother, Martha Sudbury, was 47. She married Nathan Dagget about 1775, in Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 30 September 1846, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States, at the age of 90.
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Historical Boundaries: 1780: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1799: Kennebec, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Kennebec, Maine, United States 1838: Franklin, Maine, United States
English: from the Middle English personal name Alger. Pronounced with a soft g it is from Old French Alg(i)er, Aug(i)er (ancient Germanic Adalgari, composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ + gāri ‘spear’); see Auger . Pronounced with a hard g, it is a variant of Algar .
Scottish and English: in Scotland, Alger may be a variant of Algeo .
German: from a shortened form of the ancient Germanic personal name Adalgar (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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