When Judge Benjamin Seaman was born on 11 December 1719, in Hempstead Town, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Seaman, was 34 and his mother, Jane Mott, was 37. He married Elizabeth Mott in 1743, in Long Island, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1781, in St. John, New Brunswick, British North America, at the age of 62.
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English: from the Middle English personal name Seman, Semon (Old English Sǣmann, composed of the elements sǣ ‘sea’ + mann ‘man’). The surname may have become confused with variants of Simon .
English: occasionally perhaps an occupational name for a sailor, from Middle English seman ‘sailor’ (Old English sǣmann), but the most common source of the name is 1.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Seemann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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