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Benjamin Banneker, (born November 9, 1731, Banneky farm [now in Oella], Maryland [U.S.] died October 19? [see Researcher’s Note], 1806, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.), mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, inventor, and writer, one of the first important African American intellectuals. Banneker, a freeman, was raised on a farm near Baltimore that he would eventually inherit from his father. Although he periodically attended a one-room Quaker schoolhouse, Banneker was largely self-educated and did much of his learning through the voracious reading of borrowed books. Early on he demonstrated a particular facility for mathematics. While still a young man (probably about age 20), he ....
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Benjamin Banneker was born in Baltimore County, Maryland on November 9, 1731. An astronomer, mathematician, inventor, as well as essayist and pamphleteer, he widely shared his thoughts about abolitionism and civil rights. He authored the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, which he published annually through 1797, as well as poems, essays, astronomical tables, and proverbs. He died on October 19, 1806. loading ....
William Hunter was born in Yorktown, the son of an Elizabeth City County merchant, also named William Hunter (d. 1742), and his second wife Mary Ann Hunter (d. 1743). He also was half-brother to Colonel John Hunter, the Hampton merchant who became commissary for British forces in America during the French and Indian War (1754–1763), as well as confidante to Lieutenant Governor Robert Dinwiddie. Shortly after their parents’ deaths, Hunter’s sister Elizabeth Hunter married John Holt, the one-time mayor of Williamsburg; Hunter and his sisters all minor children moved into the Holts’ home. By that time, Hunter was already apprenticed to William Parks, Virginia’s first public printer. He had reached maturity by 1749, when he was reported as Parks’s shop foreman. Thus when Parks died onboard the ....