Benjamin Garfield

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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Family Time Line

Joseph Garfield
1637–1692
Sarah Gale
1641–1688
Abigail Garfield
1661–1726
Captain Edward Garfield
1664–1717
Benjamin Garfield
1669–
Jonathan Garfield
1672–1756
Sarah Garfield
1673–1699
Jerusha Garfield
1677–1758
John Garfield
1680–
Rebekah Garfield
1683–1720
Grace Garfield
1688–1771

Sources (5)

  • 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

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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