Brief Life History of Benjamin Benoi
When Benjamin Benoi Duncan was born on 11 October 1793, in Kentucky, United States, his father, William David Duncan, was 22 and his mother, Elanor Blake, was 16. He married Ophelia Bartlett on 21 November 1811, in Adams, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died on 17 March 1875, in Washington, Daviess, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Washington, Daviess, Indiana, United States.
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- Benjamin Duncan, "United States Census, 1850"
- Benjamin Duncan, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Benjamin B Duncan, "Find A Grave Index"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1796 · Wilderness Road Opens to Wagons
In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
1816
Indiana is the 19th state.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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