Micah Post was born in 1730, in Westbury, North Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States. He married Elizabeth Powell in 1771, in New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son.
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North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
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