Of uncertain origin; perhaps from an English place name, but not
now recorded in England as a surname. One possibility is Abson near
Bristol, earlier Abston; another is Adstone in
Northamptonshire, which is named from an Old English personal name
Ættin + Old English tun ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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