When Moses Wadhams was born on 17 September 1759, in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonathan Wadhams, was 28 and his mother, Judith Howe, was 28. He married Ann Collins on 9 January 1783, in Goshen, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1800. He died on 10 March 1823, in Goshen, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Goshen, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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English: variant of Wadham, with post-medieval excrescent -s, a habitational name from Wadham in Knowstone (Devon). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Wada or Old English wād ‘woad’ + hām ‘village, homestead’ or hamm ‘water meadow’. Wadham College, Oxford, was founded in 1610 by Dorothy Wadham, widow of Nicholas Wadham (died 1609), a wealthy Somerset landowner.
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