When Nathan Eliot was born in March 1758, in New Preston, Washington, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Nathan Elliott, was 32 and his mother, Clarina Griswold, was 25. He died in November 1759, at the age of 1, and was buried in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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English and Scottish: variant of Elliott .
History: Andrew Eliot, a shoemaker of East Coker, Somerset, England, who emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1670, was the founder of a distinguished American family which included the poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), who was born in St. Louis, MO. The earliest Eliot recorded in North America was John Eliot (1604–90), a Puritan missionary known as the ‘Indian Apostle’, who was born in Hertfordshire and sailed to Boston in 1631. He later settled in Roxbury, MA.
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