Brief Life History of Benona
When Benona Ryland was born about 1760, in Pitt, North Carolina, United States, his father, Phillip Ryland, was 31 and his mother, Ann, was 26. He had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with Sarah. He lived in Greenville, Pitt, North Carolina, United States in 1800 and Rapides, Louisiana, United States in 1850. He died after 1850, in Louisiana, United States.
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- Benoni Ryland, "United States Census, 1800"
- Benoni Riland, "United States Census, 1810"
- Benona Ryland, "United States Census, 1790"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
North Carolina is the 12th state.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an area of land where rye was grown (Middle English rie ‘rye’ + land, lond) or who lived at a place called Ryland with the same meaning. The singular form is often a later alteration of the plural form Rylands; see Roylance .
Norwegian: habitational name from any of the three farmsteads in Fjordane and Hordaland so named from an unexplained first element + land ‘(piece of) land, farm’.
Americanized form of German Reiland .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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