Patronymic, matronymic, or ancestral. Patronymic surnames (those that come from a male given name) include Benson (âthe son of Benâ), Davis, Dawson, Evans, Harris, Harrison, Jackson, Jones (Welsh for John), Nicholson, Richardson, Robinson, Rogers, Simpson, Stephenson, Thompson, Watson, and Wilson.rom an English place name. A last name may have pointed to where a person was born, lived, worked, or owned land. It might be from the name of a house, farm, hamlet, town, or county. Some examples: Bedford, Burton, Hamilton, Hampshire, Sutton.
JOHN DICKINSON Delaware. Birth: 19 November 1732, at Crosiadore, Talbot County, Maryland Death: 14 February 1808, at Wilmington, Delaware Interment: Friends Burial Ground, Wilmington, Delaware. Oil on canvas, by Charles Willson Peale (1780); Independence National Historical Park. John Dickinson represented both Delaware and Pennsylvania at the founding of the republic. A man of the Enlightenment, he believed that government was a solemn social contract between the people and their sovereign.
During his remaining years in England, he published eight books. His more significant title is The General History of Virginia, the Somer Iles, and New England, with the Names of the Adventurers, and Their Adventures... Captain John Smith died in London on June 21, 1631. He is buried in St. Sepulchre's Church in London.ohn Smith was baptized in Willoughby by Alford, England, on January 9, 1579. He was the eldest son of George Smith and Alice Rickards. George Smith was a yeoman farmer who most probably worked for Peregrine Bertie (Lord Willoughby).