When Samuel Norton was born on 22 January 1680, in Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, CPT. George Norton, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Hart, was 33. He died on 2 February 1680, in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 0.
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English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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