When Balthasar Hesson Jr. was born on 11 April 1744, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Balthazar Hesson, was 33 and his mother, Susanna Margaret Catherina Coblentz, was 32. He had at least 5 sons and 5 daughters with Catherina Coblentz. He lived in Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1790. He died on 26 June 1838, in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery, Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1748: Frederick, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOisín ‘descendant of Oisín’, a personal name from a diminutive of os ‘deer, fawn’. A similar surname Ó hOsáin was used in Ulster; see Hassan .
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