When Polly Putnam was born on 29 December 1797, in Andover, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Jacob Putnam, was 26 and her mother, Mary Burton, was 24. She married Oreb Taylor on 8 March 1823, in Pawlet, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 10 daughters. She lived in Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. She died on 25 September 1870, in Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, United States.
English (Middlesex and Buckinghamshire): habitational name from either of two places, in Hertfordshire and Surrey, called Puttenham, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Putta, meaning ‘kite’ (the bird) + Old English hām ‘homestead’.
History: John Putnam emigrated from England to Salem, MA, before 1641, and established a family that was still prominent in Massachusetts four generations later, including the revolutionary war soldier Israel Putnam (1718–90) and his cousin Rufus Putnam (1738–1824), also a soldier, one of the first settlers in OH.
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