When Abigail Morton was born on 1 February 1722, in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Abraham Morton, was 45 and her mother, Sarah Kellogg, was 39. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1723. She died on 24 December 1726, in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 4.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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