Benjamin Hoorenbeck
about 1770–1808 (Age 38)
Rochester, Ulster, New York, United States
The Life Summary of Benjamin
When Benjamin Hoorenbeck was born about 1770, in Rochester, Ulster, New York, United States, his father, Joseph Hornbeck, was 36 and his mother, Blandina Westbrook, was 24. He died in 1808, at the age of 38.
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Family Time Line
Joseph Hornbeck
1734–1835
Blandina Westbrook
1746–1832
Abraham Hornbeck
1745–
Elizabeth Hornbeck
1745–
Everett Hoorenbeck
1745–
Joseph Hornbeck
1745–
Margaret Hornbeck
1745–
Maria Hornbeck
1745–
Ledia Hornbeck
1759–1870
Saffreen Hornbeck
1767–
Sofferin Hornbeck
1769–1806
Lydia Hornbeck
1769–1846
Benjamin Hoorenbeck
1770–1808
Sovereign Horenbeck
1771–1806
Eleanor Hornbeck
1750–1837
Jacob Hornbeck
1767–
Benjamin Hornbeck
1768–1855
Lydia Hoorenbeck
1778–
Severyne Hornbeck
1780–
Parents and Siblings
1734–1835Male
1746–1832Female
Siblings
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1745–Female
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World Events (3)
1776
Age 6
1776
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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1776
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New York is the 11th state.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
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1776 · The Declaration to the King
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"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Name Meaning
Biblical name, borne by the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob. His mother Rachel died in giving birth to him, and in her last moments she named him Benoni, meaning ‘son of my sorrow’. His father, however, did not wish him to bear such an ill-omened name, and renamed him Benyamin (Genesis 35:16–18; 42:4). This means either ‘son of the right hand’ or more likely ‘son of the south’ (Hebrew yamin can also mean ‘south’), since Benjamin was the only child of Jacob born in Canaan and not in Mesopotamia to the north. Another tradition is that the second element of the name is a variant of the Hebrew plural noun yamim, which means ‘days’ but is used idiomatically to mean ‘year’ or ‘years’. The name would then mean ‘son of (my) old age’ and refer to the fact that Benjamin was Jacob's youngest child. In the Middle Ages the name was often given to sons whose mothers had died in childbirth. Today it has no such unfortunate associations and it grew enormously in popularity following the release of the film The Graduate ( 1967 ), in which Dustin Hoffman played the role of Benjamin Braddock . It is used in Scotland as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Beathan .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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