When Nicolas Jean Sebastien Benoit was born on 23 November 1760, in Saint-Servan, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, his father, Augustin Benoit, was 20 and his mother, Françoise Thériot, was 20. He married Jeanne de La Foresterie on 16 August 1789, in Donaldsonville, Ascension, Louisiana, United States. He died about 1841, in St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 82.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""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."""""""
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Normand, Marcel, Armand, Pierre, Raoul, Michel, Emile, Jacques, Alphonse, Laurent, Arsene.
French (Benoît): from the personal name Benoît, French form of Benedict . Compare Benoist , Benoy , Benware , Benway , and Ward .
History: Paul Benoît dit Nivernois or Nivernais or Livernois from Châtillon-en-Bazois in Nivernais, France, is recorded in Montreal, QC, in 1658. His descendants also bear the surname Livernois . Gabriel Benoît dit Laforest from Paris, France, is recorded in Champlain, QC, in 1665. Jacques Benoît dit Laguerre from the Angoumois region of France is recorded in Montreal, QC, in 1729. The LA lines seem to have descended from various Acadian refugees of the 18th century. — This surname is listed along with its altered form Benoy in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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