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Name: Samuel Atwood Gender: Male Christening Date: Christening Place: Birth Date: 18 May 1687 BirthPlace: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Death Date: Name Note: Race: Father's Name: John Atwood Father's BirthPlace: Father's Age: Mother's Name: Sarah Mother's BirthPlace: Mother's Age: Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01922-7 System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy GS Film Number: 592866 Reference ID: Pg 148-149
'Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:FHMW-R8S : 11 March 2018), John Atwood in entry for Samuel Atwood, 18 May 1687; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Pg 148-149; FHL microfilm 592,866.
The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)
1620 - 1627 - Plymouth Colony, New England 1628 - 1686 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1686 - 1689 - Dominion of New England 1689 - 1692 - Massachusetts Bay Colony 1692 - 1775 - Province of Massachusetts Bay 1776 - 1788 - Crown Colony of Massachusetts Bay February 6, 1788 - Massachusetts becomes 6th U.S. state
The name 'Massachusetts' originates with native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area (from the language of the Algonquian nation). The name translates roughly as 'at or about the great hill.' (statesymbolsusa.org)
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