When Zaccheus Button was born in 1747, in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, Jedidiah Button, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Newberry, was 29. He died on 25 August 1781, at the age of 34.
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metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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