When Joel Taft was born on 28 May 1747, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Peter Taft, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Cheney, was 39. He died on 27 September 1758, in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 11, and was buried in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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English (mainly Staffordshire and Derbyshire): variant of Toft .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial or metonymic occupational name from German Taft ‘taffeta’.
History: Robert Taft (born c. 1640), lived in Braintree, MA, and subsequently Mendon, MA. — Alphonso Taft (1810–91), jurist and politician born in Townshend, VT, was the father of William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the US and chief justice of the US Supreme Court.
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