When Peter Eastman was born on 20 April 1710, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Eastman, was 30 and his mother, Hannah Green, was 32. He married Elizabeth Harriman on 27 June 1733, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 8 daughters. He registered for military service in 1776. He died on 6 April 1794, in Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .
English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).
Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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