Brief Life History of Amy
When Amy Benjamin was born in 1747, in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, her father, Gideon Benjamin, was 49 and her mother, Amy Spencer, was 30. She married Bulah Waldo in 1769, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 30 January 1830, in Tinmouth, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Tinmouth Cemetery, Tinmouth, Rutland, Vermont, United States.
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- Amy Benjamin Waldo, "Find A Grave Index"
- Amy Waldo in entry for Fanny Perry, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Aury Waldo in entry for Bulah Waldo, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1778
Oldest grave seen in the Memorials list.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
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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