When Elizabeth Bathseba Bolton was born in 1765, in Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America, her father, William Boulton, was 28 and her mother, Hannah Campbell, was 23. She married Joseph Gauntt in 1785, in Burlington, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1820, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 55.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland, and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland, from Old English bothl ‘dwelling, house’ (see Bold 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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