When Hamilton Prettyman was born about 1773, in Indian River Hundred, Sussex, Delaware, United States, his father, William Prettyman, was 19 and his mother, Elizabeth Craig, was 22. He died on 14 March 1802, in Sussex, Delaware, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Sussex, Delaware, United States.
English (Suffolk): nickname from Middle English prat(e), pratte ‘cunning, wily’ (Old English prætt) + man, or an occupational name signifying the servant (Middle English ‘man’) of someone named Pretty .
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