When Sarah D Patterson was born on 25 April 1753, in Pembroke, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Alexander Patterson, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Arbuckle, was 32. She married Major David Campbell in 1775. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 12 March 1818, in Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in First Burial Yard, Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States.
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"First granted in 1728, the town was known as ""Lovewell's Town"", in honor of Captain John Lovewell, who built the stockade at Ossipee. Shortly afterward, the town took the name of ""Suncook"", the Pennacook Abenaki name for the river flowing through the area. When the town was incorporated in 1759 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, it was given the name ""Pembroke"" in honor of Henry Herbert, ninth Earl of Pembroke in southern Wales."
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Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
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