When William Sutherland was born on 29 December 1698, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Sutherland, was 48 and his mother, Margaret Tosheoch, was 11695. He married Hannah Avery about 1715. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1772, in his hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Chatham, Ghent, Columbia, New York, United States.
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Lieutenant James Cook charts the easter coastline of the continent aboard the Endeavour and claims the land as a British possession.
Scottish (Caithness): habitational name from the Scottish county of Sutherland, named with Old Norse súthr ‘south, southern’ + land ‘land’ because the territory lay south of Scandinavia and the Norse colonies in the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
History: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan associated with the county of Sutherland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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