When Anah Benedict was born on 24 December 1785, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Nathaniel Benedict Jr, was 41 and her mother, Hannah "Anah" Raymond, was 34. She died on 29 May 1878, in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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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.
Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
Post office est. Dec. 19, 1810
English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Benedict, from Latin Benedictus ‘blessed’. This owed its popularity in the Middle Ages chiefly to Saint Benedict of Norcia (c. 480–550), who founded the Benedictine order of monks at Monte Cassino and wrote a monastic rule that formed a model for all subsequent rules. No doubt the meaning of the Latin word also contributed to its popularity as a personal name, especially in Romance countries. Occasionally the English surname may derive from Latin benedicite ‘bless (you)’, perhaps given as a nickname to an habitual user of the expression. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed the German variant Benedikt and many cognates from other languages, e.g. Hungarian Benedek , Slovenian Benedik (see Benedick ), and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Italian Benedetti .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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