When Charles Brayton was born on 19 October 1772, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Brayton, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Atwood, was 20. He married Rebecca Havens on 26 April 1795, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 16 November 1831, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Brayton Cemetery, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States.
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English (Cumberland): habitational name from any of the places in Cumberland and North Yorkshire named Brayton, from Old Norse breithr ‘broad’ or the Old Norse personal name Breithi + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’.
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