When Ruth Blake Curtis was born on 26 April 1686, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Zacheus Curtis, was 40 and her mother, Mary Blake, was 34. She married James MacWithey Jr on 11 September 1718, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 20 April 1742, in United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in United States.
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English: nickname for a refined person, sometimes perhaps given ironically, from Middle English, Old French courteis, courtois, curtis ‘courtly, refined, urbane’ (derivative of Old French court; see Court 1).
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