Benjamin Stoddart
BIRTH
1751
Charles County, Maryland
DEATH
December 18, 1813
Bladensburg, Maryland
FAMILY
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Stoddart, Benjamin
(1751-1813)
Benjamin Stoddert was a Maryland merchant and Continental cavalry officer who was wounded at Brandywine and later worked with the Board of War. He became the first United States secretary of the navy.
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Elizabeth Ewell
(1700-1758)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Beall's Pleasure Marker | Duvall Ridge Road, Landover, Maryland, 20785, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Bladensburg, Maryland
Dec 18, 1813
The exact date and place of Benjamin Stoddart’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Benjamin Stoddart with work or public activity as a merchant, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Benjamin Stoddart died on Dec 18, 1813 in Bladensburg, Maryland. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.