When Rebecca Benedict was born about 1659, in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Benedict, was 43 and her mother, Mary Bridgum, was 42. She married Samuel Wood before 28 February 1690, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in 1709, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 51.
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After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
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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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