When Mehetabel Saltmarsh was born on 12 April 1762, in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Thomas Saltmarsh, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Abbott, was 18. She married James Hoyt on 9 February 1784, in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 25 October 1814, in Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Weeks Cemetery, Gilford, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States.
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English (Essex): from Middle English salt-mareis ‘salt-marsh’. The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on or by a salt-marsh, or habitational from a place so named, such as Saltmarshe (East Yorkshire; Herefordshire), Saltmarsh in Henbury (Gloucestershire), or Salt Marsh in Hailsham (Sussex).
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