When Daniel Devoe was born in 1738, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Frederick De Veaux, was 28 and his mother, Jane, de Voe, Doty, was 27.
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Americanized form of French Devaux or Deveau .
English (Middlesex): variant of Devo, itself a variant of Defoe in any of the possible senses and thus a possible cognate of 1 above and 3 below.
Americanized form of Swiss French Thévoz (see Defoe 1).
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