Brief Life History of Mehitable
When Mehitable Kneeland was born on 15 June 1734, in Tolland, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Neland, was 28 and her mother, Mehitable Fuller, was 28. She died on 27 March 1740, in Tolland, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 5, and was buried in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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- Mahitabel Neland, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Mahitibell Neland, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
- Mahitabel Neland, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Nialláin (see Nealon ). This surname is rare in Britain.
History: Family tradition holds that John Kneeland, born in 1575 in Glasgow, Scotland, came with his brother Edward to Massachusetts Bay c. 1630 on board one of his father's vessels freighted with provisions for the Pilgrims, and that he settled near Boston. His grandson Samuel Kneeland (1697–1769) was a printer who published the Boston Gazette from 1741 to 1755.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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