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.
The growling sound of both his trumpet and Joe Nanton's trombone lent the band's sound its savage appeal. Couple with Sonny Greer's primordial drumming, they evoked the African jungle, and therefore was advertised as jungle music. Ellington died in may 1974. Lera dello swing e delle big band fu dominata artisticamente dallorchestra di Edward Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974), il primo grande compositore e arrangiatore della musica jazz e uno tra i pi prolifici in tutta la storia della musica.