Brief Life History of Jesse
When Jesse Benton was born about 1759, in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Edward Benton, was 20 and his mother, Leah Leete, was 20. He died on 8 August 1760, in his hometown, at the age of 2.
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- Jesse Benton, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Jesse Benton, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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Name Meaning
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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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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