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My 3x great grandfather Jabez Dexter was born in New Hampshire 1790 Feb 26. Several of his children have biblical names. A DNA test showed me as having 2% European Jew and I'm wondering if Jabez had Jewish ancestors. I will probably never know.
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Usage of that name in the US rose from below 10 to 90 in 2002 and 138 in 2003. What was the trigger for that rise?
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Jabez Dawes, the subject of a poem by Ogden Nash. He is a thoroughly disagreeable boy whose worst vice is that he tells children that there is no Santa Claus. Santa Claus eventually comes down his chimney and turns him into a jack-in-the box, much to the rejoicing of everybody.
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Jabez Wilson, a character in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League,” a story in the Sherlock Holmes series.
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Jabez Wolffe (1876-1943) was a famous British swimming champion.
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Jabez Howland was the son of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley Howland, two Pilgrims. His house is the only remaining house in Plymouth where Pilgrims lived.
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A famous fictional bearer of the name is Jabez Stone, the main character in Stephen Vincent Benét's short story The Devil and Daniel Webster.
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