When Levi Bliss Totten was born on 2 May 1759, in Goshen, Goshen, Orange, New York, United States, his father, Joseph Totten, was 38 and his mother, Mary Willie Poppino, was 31. He married Martha Tefft on 8 July 1789, in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States in 1810 and South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1831. He died on 25 February 1833, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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variant of Tutin. This name derives either from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Tot(t)ing or Tut(t)ing, pet forms of Old English Tot(t)a or Tut(t)a; or is a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English word toting ‘lookout place’, a derivative of Old English tōtian ‘to peep out, stick out’.
habitational name from Totnes (Devon), derived from the Old English personal name Totta + Old English næss ‘promontory, headland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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