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  • Dr. West (1787 - 1868)
  • Abiah West (1688 - c.1721)
    Biography Abiah Sprague , daughter of William & Deborah (Lane) Sprague, was born in Hingham, then Plymouth Colony, on 27 Jan 1688/9. She died before April 1721[1]. Abiah Sprague married William West o...
  • Abigail Colby (1776 - 1818)
    Descendant of Mayflower passenger George Soule HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, C...
  • Abigail West (1683 - 1733)
    Abigail Wheeler b. 1687 Swansea, RId. 1733 Barrington, Bristol, RImarried Ebenezer Martin (1685 -1727) November 29, 1716, Swansea, Bristol, MATheir children:* Jemima Martin b: 21 May 1717* John Martin ...
  • Abigail Cole (1682 - 1720)
    HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 626 * 'Encyclopedia of Connecticut bi...

About the West surname

English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a regional name for someone who had migrated from further west