When Abigail Keep was born on 27 October 1775, in Cumberland, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Simon or Simeon Keep, was 38 and her mother, Esther Hoar, was 33. She married Miner Merrick in May 1797, in Monson, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Winfield, Herkimer, New York, United States in 1855. She died on 16 October 1858, at the age of 82, and was buried in Wood Cemetery, Herkimer, New York, United States.
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English (southeastern): from Middle English kepe, possibly in the sense ‘keep of a castle’ though this is not otherwise recorded until the late 16th century (perhaps a translation of Italian tenazza ‘that which keeps’), or in the sense ‘look-out place’ (Old English cēpe, from cēpan ‘to watch, look out for’).
Americanized form of German Kiep or of some other similar (like-sounding) German surname.
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