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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : variant of Marchand.
  • John Marchant (c.1600–c.1668) was in Newport, RI, before 1638. In that year he moved to Braintree, MA, then to Watertown, MA (1642), and finally to Yarmouth, MA (1648). His descendants included many sea captains and other prominent people.

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