Brief Life History of Jedidiah
When Jedidiah Bellows was born on 8 March 1765, in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jotham Wetherbee Bellows Sr, was 33 and his mother, Abigail Rice Knight, was 29.
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- Jedidiah Bellows, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Jedidiah Bellows, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Jedidiah Bellows, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
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Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of bellows, a plural variant of Bellow 1.
Americanized form of French Béland (see Beland ), with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
In some cases also an Americanized form of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Belous .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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