When Job Trowbridge was born on 8 March 1754, in Morristown, Morris Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States, his father, David Trowbridge, was 44 and his mother, Lydia Holmes, was 38. He married Martha Doty on 3 January 1785, in Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 12 August 1821, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67.
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English (Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire): habitational name from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, named from Old English trēow ‘tree’ + brycg ‘bridge’; the name probably referred to a felled trunk serving as a rough-and-ready bridge.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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