When Lydia Young Appleton was born on 17 February 1779, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Thomas Appleton, was 35 and her mother, Martha Barnard, was 31. She married Benjamin Tuttle Wells in 1799, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She died on 22 March 1872, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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English: habitational name from any of the many places in all parts of England named Appleton, from Old English æppeltūn ‘orchard’ (literally ‘apple enclosure’). Apples were particularly important in the Middle Ages as a food for survival through the winter.
History: This surname was brought to North America in 1635 by Samuel Appleton, who migrated from Ipswich, England, to Ipswich, MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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