When Dr David Delavan was born in 1766, in North Salem, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Timothy Delavan Jr, was 28 and his mother, Sarah Close, was 28. He married Mercy Knapp in 1793. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Dover, Dutchess, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 November 1823, in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Patterson, Putnam, New York, United States.
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French: variant of Delavant (and, in North America, an altered form of this), itself probably a variant of Delavaud, a habitational name, with fused preposition de ‘from’, for someone from Lavaud, the name of several places in the westcentral part of France. This form of the surname has apparently died out in France.
History: Cornelius Del Avant/Delavan of French descent married Deborah Green in Stamford, CT, in 1712.
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