When Rebecca Frost was born on 28 October 1714, in Oyster Bay Town, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Frost, was 40 and her mother, Hannah Prior, was 33. She married Josiah Cock about 1730, in Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died after 7 September 1765.
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English, German, Danish, and Swedish: nickname for someone who suffers from being cold, or perhaps used in the sense ‘frosty, cold as frost, without warmth of feeling’, or perhaps ‘having the appearance of being covered with frost’ for one with white hair or a white beard. From Old English, Old High German, Old Norse frost ‘frost’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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