Note on Surname: Surname spelling was not standardized in Elizabeth's lifetime. It is variously spelled, among members of the family and individuals as Benin, Benion and Benain. The record with respect to Elizabeth's birth reported in Brock is "Elizabet Benin".
Elizabeth (Elizabet) was born 17 September 1736.
17th 7ber, 1736, Elizabet Benin, daughter of Antoine Benin and of Elizabet Benin. Brock p. 93. was born Judith Benain, daughter of Antoine (?) Benain and of Elizabeth Benain
Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town, with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families by Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914. ed. cn; Virginia Historical Society. cn
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