Brief Life History of Benjamin David
When Benjamin David Brink was born on 29 August 1763, in Morris, New Jersey, United States, his father, Nicholas Brink I, was 34 and his mother, Hester Van Garden, was 23. He married Elizabeth Horton in June 1786, in Smithfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He registered for military service in 1834. He died on 31 December 1845, in Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Sheshequin Valley Cemetery, Sheshequin, Sheshequin Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Bradford county families - 1770-1900 - children and marriages
- Benjamin Brink, "Find A Grave Index"
- Benjamin Brink, "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872"
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1775
"During the six-year Revolutionary war, more of the fights took place in New Jersey than any other colony. Over 296 engagements between opposing forces were recorded. One of the largest conflicts of the entire war took place between Morristown and Middlebrook, referred to as the ""Ten Crucial Days"" and remembered by the famous phrase ""the times that try men's souls"". The revolution won some of their most desperately needed victories during this time."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
North German; Danish and Swedish (of German origin): topographic name for someone who lived by a pasture or green, from Middle Low German brinc ‘hill, edge, slope, grazing land’, especially a raised meadow in low-lying marshland. Swedish name is ornamental.
Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by the brink, which is in the central and east Netherlands the name of the common area in the centre of the village, the village square. Compare Vandenbrink .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Revolutionary War
Benjamin Brink served in the Revolutionary under Captain Henry Shoemaker, Col. Jacob Stroud, and Col. John Chambers.
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