Brief Life History of Jacob
When Jacob Preston was born about 1657, in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Roger Preston, was 45 and his mother, Martha, was 36. In 1671, at the age of 15, his occupation is listed as blacksmith - bound himself to thomas chandler for 7 years in Merrimack, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. He died about 1679, in At Sea, at the age of 24.
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- The Great Migration - Roger Preston family [$$$]
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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