Brief Life History of Ezekiel
When Ezekiel Weston was born in February 1755, in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, James Weston, was 36 and his mother, Esther Miles, was 38. He died before 1767, in Wakefield, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Ezekiell Wesson, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ezekiel Weston, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Ezekel Weston (Wesson) - Birth Record
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Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of numerous places called Weston, from Old English west ‘west’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
topographic name from Middle English atte west tun(e) ‘at the west farmstead, settlement’ (Old English west + tūn), or from Middle English (bi) weste(n)tune (Old English be westan tūne or be west in tūne), denoting someone who lived either to the west of a settlement or in the western part of a settlement. The latter was a common surname in Sussex.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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