When Moses Benton was born on 26 April 1702, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Benton, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Chatterton, was 40. He married Miriam Scott about 1748, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 12 May 1755, in his hometown, at the age of 53, and was buried in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Benton Green in Berkswell, Warwickshire, Bentons in Suffolk, and Little Benton and Longbenton in Northumberland. The places are named with Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
in Yorkshire and possibly also Staffordshire, a variant of Bentham .
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