When Dr. Samuel Brigham III was born on 3 March 1723, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Brigham Jr., was 34 and his mother, Abigail Moore, was 26. He married Anna Gott on 9 January 1752, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He died on 15 February 1756, in British West Indies, at the age of 32.
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English: habitational name from either of two places in East Yorkshire and Cumberland named Brigham, or from Bridgham in Norfolk, all of which are from Old English brycg ‘bridge’ + hām ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘enclosure hemmed in by water’.
History: Thomas Brigham (c. 1603–53) came from London to Cambridge, MA, in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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