When Abigail Elwell was born on 25 March 1742, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Elwell, was 23 and her mother, Lucy Pierce, was 19. She married Moses Olmsted about 1756, in Pittsford, Rutland, Republic of Vermont. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1790, in Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Connecticut, United States.
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English: habitational name from Elwell in Dorset, from Old English hǣl ‘omen’ or hǣle ‘hale, safe’ or hǣllu ‘health, healing’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. The reference is probably to a spring now called the Wishing Well. Compare Halliwell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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