Brief Life History of Jonathan
When Jonathan Hassam was born on 5 March 1729, in Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Hassam, was 26 and his mother, Mary Bennett, was 18. He died in 1752, at the age of 23.
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- Jonathan Harsham, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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Name Meaning
English (mainly Kent): possibly a variant of Horsham, a habitational name from any of several places called Horsham (two in Devon, one in Sussex, one in Norfolk, and one in Worcestershire). The placenames derive from Old English hors ‘horse’ + hām ‘village, homestead’ or hamm ‘water meadow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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