Agustus Calvin Bingham

Brief Life History of Agustus Calvin

When Agustus Calvin Bingham was born on 4 April 1772, in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ozias Bingham, was 21 and his mother, Sarah Phelps, was 17. He died in July 1778, in his hometown, at the age of 6.

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Family Time Line

Ozias Bingham
1750–1845
Sarah Phelps
1754–1821
Agustus Calvin Bingham
1772–1778
Amanda Bingham
1786–1835
Tryphena Bingham
1774–1858
Sarah Bingham
1777–1860
Rosa Lena Bingham
1779–1865
Jerusha Bingham
1792–1829

Sources (4)

  • Augustus Bingham, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Geneanet Community Trees Index
  • Augustus Bingham, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"

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1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1776 · The Declaration to the King

"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

English (Dorset) and Irish (County Mayo): habitational name from Bingham (Nottinghamshire). The placename is probably from an Old English folk-name Bynningas (‘the people associated with a man named Bynna’), or possibly from an unattested Old English word bing ‘a kettle-shaped hollow’, + Old English hām ‘homestead’.

Irish (Ulster, of Scottish origin): altered form of Bigham .

American shortened and altered form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames such as Bingenheimer .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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