When Barnabas Stetson was born in July 1688, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Stetson, was 40 and his mother, Abigail Hudson, was 29. He died on 27 December 1742, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 54.
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English (Lancashire): variant of Stitson, a habitational name from Stidston in South Brent (Devon), from an Old English personal name Stīthweard (genitive Stīthweardes) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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