When William Douglas was born on 17 January 1742, in Quinebaug, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Col. John Douglas, was 38 and his mother, Olive Spalding, was 33. He married Hannah Mansfield on 5 July 1767, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Montreal, Canada East, British North America in 1776. He registered for military service in 1760. In 1774, his occupation is listed as shipmaster. He died on 28 May 1777, in Northford, North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Northford New Cemetery, Northford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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Possible Related Names"HON. BENJAMIN DOUGLAS (deceased). In the death of ex-Lieut. Gov. Benjamin Douglas, of Middletown, on June 26, 1894, there was removed from earth one of the prominent men of the State of Connecticut a …
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