When Rebecca Benton was born on 14 September 1671, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Daniel Benton, was 33 and her mother, Rachel Goodrich, was 32. She married Joseph Halsey about 1689, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Benton Green in Berkswell, Warwickshire, Bentons in Suffolk, and Little Benton and Longbenton in Northumberland. The places are named with Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
in Yorkshire and possibly also Staffordshire, a variant of Bentham .
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