When Eliakim Hitchcock was born on 2 October 1680, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Eliakim Hitchcock, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Merrick, was 37. He died about 1704, at the age of 25.
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The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873
English: from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Hitch , a pet form of Richard , with the Middle English diminutive suffix -cok. Compare Heacock .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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