Brief Life History of Deborah
When Deborah Colton was born on 20 May 1745, in Hampden, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ebenezer Colton, was 48 and her mother, Deborah Chandler, was 35. She married Elijah Burt on 3 December 1767, in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 28 April 1792, in Longmeadow, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Longmeadow Cemetery, Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Deborah Colton, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Deborah Colton, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Deborah Burt, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
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1760
Historical Boundaries: 1760: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Lincoln, Maine, United States
1767
Historical Boundaries: 1767: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1790: Hancock, Massachusetts, United States 1816: Penobscot, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Penobscot, Maine, United States
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .
Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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