Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker died at the age of 74 in his log cabin near Ellicott's Mills, Baltimore County, Maryland. A fire burned down his cabin on the day of his funeral, destroying many of his papers and belongings.

Thomas Jefferson replied to Benjamin Banneker's letter, acknowledging receipt of the almanac and expressing support for the advancement of African Americans. He also sent Banneker's almanac to the Marquis de Condorcet in Paris.

Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter to Thomas Jefferson, then serving as the United States Secretary of State, expressing a plea for justice for African Americans and included a manuscript of his almanac for 1792.

The United States Declaration of Independence was signed. This is relevant because Banneker quoted from it in his letter to Thomas Jefferson, appealing for justice for African Americans.

Benjamin Banneker was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to Mary Banneky, a free black woman, and Robert, a freed slave from Guinea.

According to a 2021 update to a genealogy report, Benjamin Banneker's father, Robert, was married to Mary Lett (then called Mary Beneca), the daughter of a white woman by an enslaved man, by this date.