Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Benjamin was born on 7 October 1838, in Bouxwiller, Bas-Rhin, France, his father, Abraham Benjamin, was 30 and his mother, Sara Samuel, was 31. He married Bettie Netter on 19 April 1861, in Port Gibson, Claiborne, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Adams, Mississippi, United States in 1870. He died on 24 December 1922, in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Natchez, Adams, Mississippi, United States.
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- Peter Benjamin, "United States Census, 1870"
- Samuel Benjamin, "France, Births and Baptisms, 1546-1896"
- Samuel L. Benjamin, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848
Revolution. Second Republic. First laws on labor, the press and education.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazic), English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania); Hungarian (Benjámin): from the Hebrew male personal name Binyāmīn ‘Son of the South’. In the Book of Genesis, it is treated as meaning ‘Son of the Right Hand’. The two senses are connected, since in Hebrew the south is thought of as the right-hand side of a person who is facing east. Benjamin was the youngest and favorite son of Jacob and supposed progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 35:16-18; 42:4). The personal name was not common among Gentiles in the Middle Ages, but its use was sanctioned by virtue of having been borne by a Christian saint martyred in Persia in about AD 424. In some cases in medieval Europe it was also applied as a byname or nickname to the youngest (and beloved) son of a large family; this is the sense of modern French benjamin. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean Benyamin and Italian Beniamino.
History: John Benjamin (1598–1645) came from England to Watertown, MA, in 1632. Jean-Baptiste Benjamin dit Saint-Aubin from France married Jeanne Allard in QC in 1704.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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