Brief Life History of Jonah
When Jonah Gleason was born on 4 July 1724, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Isaac Gleason Jr., was 36 and his mother, Mary Prior, was 32. He married Hannah Parker on 6 August 1751, in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died in 1763, in his hometown, at the age of 39.
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- Jonah Gleason, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Colo. John Gleason in entry for Molly Gleason, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jonah Gleason in entry for Daniel Gleason, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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Name Meaning
Irish (Waterford): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Glasáin, from a diminutive of glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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