Brief Life History of Eunice
When Eunice Wadsworth was born on 27 November 1727, in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ichabod Wadsworth, was 40 and her mother, Margaret Marshall, was 24. She died on 11 March 1740, in her hometown, at the age of 12.
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- Vital Records of Duxbury, Mass to the Year 1850, Births.
- Vital Records of Duxbury, Mass to the Year 1850, Deaths.
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Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Wadsworth near Halifax, Yorkshire. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Wæddi (genitive Wæddes) + Old English worth ‘enclosure’.
History: William Wadsworth came from England to Cambridge, MA, in 1632, and in 1636 accompanied Thomas Hooker as one of the founders of Hartford, CT. — John Wadsworth (died 1787) was a fellow of Harvard College and is buried in the old burial ground in Cambridge, MA. Peleg Wadsworth, born in Duxbury, MA, 1748, was a revolutionary war general and grandfather of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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