When John Benson was born in 1757, in Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, United States, his father, Charles Benson, was 37 and his mother, Judith Cross, was 36. He married Mary Jane Walker in October 1802, in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. He died in 1815, at the age of 58.
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English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
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