When Eleanor Sweetland was born in 1719, in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Sweetland, was 34 and her mother, Mary Cruff, was 25. She married John Hammond on 12 July 1739, in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons.
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English: habitational name from Sweetlands Farm in Upottery (Devon), perhaps from Old English swēte ‘sweet, pure, pleasant’ + land ‘land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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