When Samuel Vail was born in 1696, in Southold, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States, his father, John Jeremiah Vail, was 33 and his mother, Grace Braddock, was 31. He married Hannah Petty on 7 August 1723, in New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in New York, United States in 1742. He died on 22 July 1779, in Goshen, Orange, New York, United States, at the age of 83.
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English: occupational name from Old French de la veille ‘of the watch, watchman’, with loss of de; compare Wake . There has been some confusion with the topographic name Vale and the nickname Veal .
Scottish: shortened and altered form of McPhail , Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phàil ‘son of Paul’.
Irish: variant of Veale .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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