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I found a Judah P. Benjamin, living in New Orleans 1860 born St. Croix, West Indies, U.S. Senata (stet), Lawyer, 49, wife Natalie 44, born South Carolina, daughter Ann L. 17 born France. Owns $40,000 in real estate value, $8,000 personal estate. The family was living with George W. Huntington, ? Merchant, age 60 born Conneticut, Walter 55, clerk, Conneticut. Owns $10,000 in real estate value, $10,000 personal estate.
Per the mortality schedule George Huntingon died of heart disease in Orleans parish 1870, born Connecticut died at 70.
Slave census shows a Judah P. Benjamin owned two. A George W. Huntington owned 5.
Harry Owen Martin posted the following to the rootsweb database:
# ID: I8376
# Name: Judah Philip Benjamin
# Surname: Benjamin
# Given Name: Judah Philip
# Sex: M
# Birth: 11 Aug 1811 in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, BWI
# Death: 6 May 1884 in Paris, France
# _UID: B27FBB023071664099BE097B6A3F3980722A
# Change Date: 25 May 2001 at 05:50:25
Father: Philip Benjamin b: 1779 in Nevis
Mother: Rebecca Mendes b: ABT 1784 in London, England
Marriage 1 Natalie St. Martin b: ABT 1817 in New Orleans, LA
* Married: 12 Feb 1833 in New Orleans, LA
Children
1. Ninette Benjamin b: 1843
# ID: I8374
# Name: Philip Benjamin
# Surname: Benjamin
# Given Name: Philip
# Sex: M
# Birth: 1779 in Nevis
# _UID: 989EA55726BA3F439CAB1661736E132B7127
# Change Date: 23 Jan 2001 at 07:59:16
# Name: Rebecca Mendes
# Surname: Mendes
# Given Name: Rebecca
# Sex: F
# Birth: ABT 1784 in London, England
# _UID: DE44A22DFF83704CBD63D5EC8ACB522CE332
# Change Date: 23 Jan 2001 at 08:01:53
# Name: Natalie St. Martin
# Surname: St. Martin
# Given Name: Natalie
# Sex: F
# Birth: ABT 1817 in New Orleans, LA
# _UID: 2EF1AE2C56B45540B01389A3D4B74A4EAAD6
# Change Date: 4 Apr 2003 at 06:14:29
Father: Auguste St. Martin b: in Santa Domingo
Mother: Francoise Ninette Peire b: in Santa Domingo
I found this:
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume I
A
Benjamin, Nathan
page 270
BENJAMIN, Judah Philip, lawyer, was born in St. Croix, W. I., Aug. 11, 1811. He was of English-Jewish parentage, and passed his early years in New Orleans, La., and Wilmington, N.C. He studied at Yale for three years, and read law in New Orleans, where he was admitted to the bar in 1834, and became a member of the law firm of Slidell, Benjamin & Conrad, which soon acquired an extensive practice. In 1845 he was a member of the convention to revise the state constitution, and in 1853 was elected to the U.S. senate as a Whig; but during the anti-slavery agitation he became a Democrat. In a controversy on the floor of the senate he antagonized Jefferson Davis and would have been involved in a duel with that senator, had not Mr. Davis made an apology in the presence of the assembled senators. He was re-elected to the senate in 1859, but withdrew with John Slidell at the secession of Louisiana in 1861. During his term he advocated the Kansas-Nebraska bill of 1854, but afterwards declared that the decision of Judge Taney in the Dred-Scott case had set aside the principle of popular sovereignty. In February, 1861, he was appointed attorney-general of the provisional government of the Confederate states, and in August, 1861, was transferred to President Davis's cabinet as secretary of war, to succeed L. P. Walker; but being subsequently accused of incompetence by the Confederate congress, he resigned, and was appointed secretary of state, which portfolio he held until the Confederacy was broken up. He fled from Richmond on the overthrow of the Confederate government, escaped to the Bahamas, and thence to England, in September, 1865. He then studied English law, entering Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1866, and was called to the [p.270] bar the following summer. He was promoted Queen's counsel in 1872, and acquired an extensive practice. His best-known argument was delivered before the court for crown cases, on behalf of the captain of the Franconia, and his last great case was a suit against the London and Northwestern railway. Later he appeared only before the House of Lords and the privy council. He retired from practice in 1883, and after a notable farewell banquet at the Inner Temple, London, he removed to Paris, where he died May 8, 1884.
1850 census -- good possibility but ... New Orleans, Louisa Canfrane? head of household, 70, mulatto, born Santa Domingo, Dolores Mir? Mu? Mucuranl ans? 35, mulatto, born Cuba, J. P. Benjamin 40, white, lawyer, born South Carolina, Braignards? 65, white, Customer H. Officer, born unknown.
Could not find reasonable leads for Natalie nor Ann L. Where do you think your the brother Joseph was living in 1860?
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