When Matthew Yale was born on 16 April 1771, in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Levi Yale, was 25 and his mother, Agnis Collins, was 24. He married Lucy Ives in February 1790. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Oneida, New York, United States in 1810 and New Hartford, New Hartford, Oneida, New York, United States in 1850.
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Historical Boundaries 1798: Oneida, New York, United States
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Welsh (Shropshire and Staffordshire): habitational name from Yale, in the lordship of Bromham and Yale (Denbighshire), itself from Welsh iâl, apparently meaning ‘unproductive land, wasteland, wilderness’.
History: Yale University in New Haven, CT, takes its name from an early benefactor, Elihu Yale (1649–1721), an officer of the British East India Company who rose to become governor of Madras Presidency, before being dismissed for corruption. He was born in Boston and his family came from Plas-Gronow near Wrexham, Denbighshire; his father, David Yale, had settled in NH in 1637.
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