When Dewey Main was born on 14 September 1770, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jonas Maine, was 35 and his mother, Content Brumbley, was 34. He married Lucinda Colegrove on 18 August 1793, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States in 1800 and Lincklaen, Chenango, New York, United States in 1840. He died on 30 January 1847, in Chenango, New York, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lincklaen Center Cemetery, Lincklaen Center, Chenango, New York, United States.
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Scottish: from a shortened form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus , which in Older Scots became Manus and Mane.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ma(g)ino, Meino, from magan ‘strength, might’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Old French magne, maine ‘great, big’.
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