Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Garfield was born on 18 November 1669, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Garfield, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Gale, was 28.
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- Benjamin Garfeild, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Benjamin Gearffeild, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Genealogy of the Wells family and families related
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Name Meaning
English (Midlands): topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + feld ‘open country, field’ (Old English gār + feld), for someone who lived by a triangular piece of land.
English: alternatively, sometimes perhaps a variant of Carville (a name of Norman origin), with excrescent final -d.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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