Last name origins & meanings:
- English (Yorkshire): metonymic occupational name for a maker of
habergeons, Middle English, Old French haubergeon. The
habergeon was a sleeveless jacket of mail or scale armor, which was
also worn for penance.
- Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, James Habersham emigrated to
the infant colony of Georgia in 1738 with his friend George
Whitefield. Together they established what is believed to be America’s
first orphanage. Habersham was married in Bethesda, GA, in 1740 and
had three surviving sons, all of whom were educated at Princeton and
became ardent patriots.
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