When Matthew S. Colvin was born in 1718, in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, John Colvin Jr., was 37 and his mother, Lydia Experience Dart, was 32. He married Meribah Smith on 18 September 1737, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 19 March 1755, in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, at the age of 37.
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On July 17, 1723, twenty-eight pirates are hung in Newport, Rhode Island.
Scottish and Irish (Donegal, Antrim): variant of Colville , probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.
Manx: if not identical with 1, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn, with /v/ substituted for /b/.
English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin, Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).
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