When Grace Root was born on 31 July 1751, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, John Root, was 45 and her mother, Anna Loomis, was 40. She married John Kent on 5 December 1771, in Southwick, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in August 1828, in Remsen, Remsen, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 77.
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English: perhaps a nickname for a cheerful person, from an unrecorded Middle English rote (Old English rōt) ‘glad, cheerful’.
English: from Middle English rote, route, rotte ‘rote’ (of uncertain origin but apparently ultimately akin to Welsh crwth), perhaps used for a player of the medieval stringed instrument, a kind of harp or fiddle. Compare Rutter .
English: perhaps a habitational name from Wroot (Lincolnshire), from Old English wrōt ‘snout, spur of land’.
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