Rachel SEEMAN
Notes:
The 1820 census lists one "free white female, ages 26-45", which is likely Rachel, which would make her birth year 1794 or earlier.
Rachel's Name:
- Marriage record on the FamilySearch web site ("Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970") lists the wife of Levi Benjamin as Rachel Simmonds Harson.
- Ancestry.com Maryland Marriage record lists her as Rachel J. Harson.
- Living with the family in 1850 is Rachel Seaman, b. c 1775, approximately 22 years older than Rachel Benjamin.
- In "The forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American diaspora," By Robert P. Swierenga (p. 191), we are told that Levi Benjamin's brother-in-law was Moses Millem. "Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970" lists a marriage between Moses Millum and Sarah Seeman (or possibly Leeman) on 22 Feb 1820.
Combining all this information, I suspect that Rachel Seaman (or more likely Seeman) was the mother to at least two daughters, Rachel and Sarah. Rachel had a brief marriage (possibly in Holland) with a man named Harson. Her listing as "Rachel Simmonds Harson" may have been a mis-transcription of "Rachel Seeman Harson".
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| Birth: | cir 1797; Holland Ref: [1] |
Notes:
The 1820 census lists one "free white female, ages 26-45", which is likely Rachel, which would make her birth year 1794 or earlier.
Rachel's Name:
- Marriage record on the FamilySearch web site ("Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970") lists the wife of Levi Benjamin as Rachel Simmonds Harson.
- Ancestry.com Maryland Marriage record lists her as Rachel J. Harson.
- Living with the family in 1850 is Rachel Seaman, b. c 1775, approximately 22 years older than Rachel Benjamin.
- In "The forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American diaspora," By Robert P. Swierenga (p. 191), we are told that Levi Benjamin's brother-in-law was Moses Millem. "Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970" lists a marriage between Moses Millum and Sarah Seeman (or possibly Leeman) on 22 Feb 1820.
Combining all this information, I suspect that Rachel Seaman (or more likely Seeman) was the mother to at least two daughters, Rachel and Sarah. Rachel had a brief marriage (possibly in Holland) with a man named Harson. Her listing as "Rachel Simmonds Harson" may have been a mis-transcription of "Rachel Seeman Harson".
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 US Census, 1820 |
 US Census, 1830 |
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 US Census, 1850 |
 Ships Manifest, Brig Unity, March, 1820 |
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Family 1:
Children: Solomon BENJAMIN (cir 1815 - )
 Sarah BENJAMIN (cir 1817 - )
Esther BENJAMIN (cir 1819 - )
Jacob BENJAMIN (cir 1822 - )
Henrietta BENJAMIN (cir 1827 - )
Martha H. BENJAMIN (MAR 1829 - 2 MAR 1909)
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