Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Alexander was born in 1662, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Alexander, was 18 and her mother, Beatrice Alexander, was 13. She married Theophilus Pinder in 1695, in British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 10 February 1754, in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 92, and was buried in Westford, Ashford, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Martha Pinder, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Martha Pinter, "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955"
- Martha Pinder, "Find A Grave Index"
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1695
The first land laid out within this territory was a tract four miles square, now in the south part of Eastford, which was made over to Simeon Stoddard of Boston, in 1695
1726
Windham County was created from Hartford and New London counties on May 12, 1726
1726
Ebenezer Byles, on becoming of age, settled on land which had been purchased by Josiah Byles in 1726
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great (356–323 BC ) - or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria (c. 250–326 AD ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymics, for example McAllister . Alexander is a common personal name in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Arabic or Assyrian/Chaldean Iskandar and Iskander , and their derivatives, e.g. Greek patronymic Alexandropoulos.
Jewish: from the adopted personal name Alexander (see 1 above) or shortened from the eastern Ashkenazic (originally Slavic) patronymics Aleksandrovich or Alexandrowicz.
History: A number of Scotch-Irish families of this name landed at New York in the early 18th century. By 1746, six of them were established in NC. Others came in through Philadelphia, for example Archibald Alexander, who came from Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1736 and established himself in VA. — The Revolutionary general William Alexander (1726–83) was always known as ‘Lord Sterling’ to his compatriots, although his claim to the title was denied by the College of Arms in London. His father, James Alexander, was a Jacobite who had fled to New York after the failure of the Jacobite rising in 1715. The claim to the title arose in connection with their ancestor Sir William Alexander, a courtier and poet at the court of King James VI of Scotland (James I of England), who created him Earl of Stirling in 1633.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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