When Mary Raitt was born on 16 January 1761, in Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Capt Alexander Raitt, was 38 and her mother, Miriam Frost, was 38. She married Reuben Ferguson on 18 February 1779, in Eliot, York, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 16 November 1845, at the age of 84.
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Scottish: habitational name from Rait Castle (Nairnshire) or Rait (Perthshire), perhaps with the same origin as Raith , though this is uncertain.
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