When Sarah Wise was born on 20 November 1746, in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Wyman Wise, was 30 and her mother, Abigail Smith, was 23. She married Deacon Nathaniel Currier in 1764, in Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 2 October 1821, in Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Atwood Cemetery, Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wise, wisse ‘wise’ (Old English wīs). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs and De Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘(the) wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by the withies or willows, from Middle English withi, Old English wīthig ‘withy, willow’.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weiss ‘white’.
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