When Ebenezer Weed Jr. was born on 15 November 1716, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Weed, was 24 and his mother, Mary Bell, was 27. He married Millicent Hoyt on 8 March 1744, in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died in 1764, in his hometown, at the age of 48.
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English: nickname for an irascible person, from Middle English wed(e) ‘mad, crazy’. The name is also possibly from the Middle English noun wede in one of its senses, ‘weed’ or ‘garment, habit’.
Americanized form of Dutch Weeda .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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