Brief Life History of Mehitabel
When Mehitabel Eager was born on 21 August 1764, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Fortunatus Eager, was 29 and her mother, Tamar Houghton, was 30. She married John Buss in 1792, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters.
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- Mehetibel Eager, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mahitable Buss in entry for Adeline Putnam, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Mehitabel Buss in entry for Addeline Buss, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
English: in most cases probably a variant of Agar or Ager . The name might also have arisen as a nickname from Middle English egre ‘sharp, sour’ (Old French aigre), which developed various transferred senses when applied to people, including ‘impetuous’, ‘fierce’, and ‘angry’, and is the source of the modern English word eager. However, no Middle English examples of this kind have been found.
Irish (Cork and Wexford): variant of English Agar . Compare Eagar .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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