Editing Benjamin Banneker (section)

===Death===
[[File:Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum Feb 18, 2017, 1-47 PM edit (33003870211).jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|{{center|Replica of Banneker's log cabin in [[Commemorations of Benjamin Banneker#Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum, Baltimore County, Maryland|Benjamin Banneker Historical Park]], [[Oella, Maryland]] (2017)}}]]

For reasons that are unclear, the four editions of his 1797 almanac were the last ones that printers published.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/206/mode/1up Bedini, 1999, pp. 206–207] "Banneker's almanac for the year 1797 was the last of his almanacs to be published. ...."</ref><ref>(1)  {{cite book |last=Banneker |first=Benjamin |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/files/original/85b98883c94b2899f1108515468e6bfa.jpg |title=Bannaker's Virginia and North Carolina almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1797 |work= |publisher=Printed by William Prentis and William Y. [i.e. T.] Murray |orig-date=1796 |location=Petersburg VA |format=1 [[Digitization|digitized]] image |oclc=62824548 |access-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301192516/https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/files/original/85b98883c94b2899f1108515468e6bfa.jpg |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |url-status=live |via=[[American Antiquarian Society]]: Black Self-Publishing}} Cited in [[iarchive:lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/396/mode/1up|Bedini, 1999, p. 396, Reference 26.]]<br />(2) {{cite book |last=Banneker |first=Benjamin |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/files/original/ff8f1def7545b2917ac5ed25dbcfaf91.jpg |title=Bannaker's Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky Almanack and EPHEMERIS, for the YEAR of our LORD 1797; Being the First after BISSEXTILE or LEAP-YEAR; The Twenty-First Year of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, And Ninth Year of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |work= |publisher=Printed by Christopher Jackson, no. 67, Market-Street, for George Keatinge's book-store. [Copy right secured.] |orig-date=1796 |location=Baltimore |format=image |oclc=62824549 |access-date=April 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423142731/https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/items/show/11096 |archive-date=April 23, 2020 |url-status=dead |via=[[American Antiquarian Society]]: Black Self-Publishing}} [[iarchive:lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/396/mode/1up|Bedini, 1999, p. 396, Reference 27.]]<br />(3) {{cite book |last=Banneker |first=Benjamin |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/files/original/d017654e87503d2f281d133c7c70db17.jpg |title=Bannaker's Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1797; Being the First after BISSEXTILE or LEAP-YEAR; The Twenty-First Year of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, And Ninth Year of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |work= |publisher=Printed by Samuel Pleasants, Jun. near the vendue office. By privilege |orig-date=1796 |location=Richmond |format=1 [[Digitization|digitized]] image |oclc=62824550 |access-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301185421/https://www.americanantiquarian.org/blackpublishing/files/original/d017654e87503d2f281d133c7c70db17.jpg |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |url-status=live |via=[[American Antiquarian Society]]: Black Self-Publishing}} [[iarchive:lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/396/mode/1up|Bedini, 1999, p. 396, Reference 28.]]<br />(4) {{cite book |last=Banneker |first=Benjamin |title=Bannaker's Maryland and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1797 |publisher=Printed by Christopher Jackson, for George Keatinge's Wholesale and Retail book store, no. 140 Market-Street |orig-date=1796 |location=Baltimore |oclc=62824545}} [[iarchive:lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/396/mode/1up|Bedini, 1999, p. 396, Reference 29.]]</ref>  After selling much of his homesite to the Ellicotts and others,<ref name=Hurry/><ref>(1) [https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/241/mode/1up Bedini, 1999, pp. 241–251.]<br>(2) {{cite web|last=Clark|first=James W., Maryland Commission on Afro-American and Indian History and Culture, Annapolis, Maryland|url=http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/004000/004300/004382/pdf/msa_se5_4382.pdf|title=Benjamin Banneker Homesite|work=Maryland State Historical Trust: Inventory Form for State Historic Sites Survey|date=June 14, 1976|page=16|publisher=[[Maryland State Archives]]|location=[[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]], Maryland|access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-date=August 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818203231/http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/004000/004300/004382/pdf/msa_se5_4382.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> he probably died in his [[log cabin]] nine years later on October 19, 1806, aged 74.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bedini |first=Silvio A. |author-link=Silvio Bedini |date=December 2, 1999 |editor1-last=Garraty |editor1-first=John Arthur |editor1-link=John A. Garraty |editor2-last=Carnes |editor2-first=Mark Christopher |title=Banneker, Benjamin (1731–1806), farmer and astronomer |url=https://www.anb.org/search?q=Banneker%2C+Benjamin+%281731-1806%29%2C+farmer+and+astronomer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020204621/https://www.anb.org/search?q=Banneker%2C+Benjamin+%281731-1806%29%2C+farmer+and+astronomer |archive-date=October 20, 2019 |access-date=October 20, 2019 |work=[[American National Biography]], Vol. 2, Baker-Blatch |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]], 1999 |page=116 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300081 |isbn=0195127811 |lccn=98020826 |oclc=963809285 |quote=Banneker, Benjamin (09 November 1731–19 October 1806), farmer and astronomer, ... |location=New York}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> (Some sources state that Banneker died on Sunday, October 9, 1806, which was actually a Thursday.)<ref name=Bedini2008/><ref>Bedini, 1999, pp.  [https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/270/mode/1up 270], [https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/272/mode/1up 272–273].</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mdhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-7.jpg|title=Obituary of Benjamin Banneker|date=October 28, 1806|publisher=Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser|access-date=September 17, 2020|quote=On Sunday, this 9th instant, departed this life at his residence in Baltimore county, in the 73rd year of his age, Mr. BENJAMIN BANNEKER, a black man, and immediate descendant of an African father.|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917011051/https://www.mdhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-7.jpg|url-status=live}} ''In'' {{cite web|author=Maryland Historical Society Library Department|author-link=Maryland Center for History and Culture#Library|url=https://www.mdhistory.org/the-dreams-of-benjamin-banneker/|title=The Dreams of Benjamin Banneker|work=[[Maryland Historical Society#Library|H. Furlong Baldwin Library]]: Underbelly|publisher=[[Maryland Center for History and Culture|Maryland Historical Society]]|date=February 6, 2014|access-date=September 17, 2020|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917003106/https://www.mdhistory.org/the-dreams-of-benjamin-banneker/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite encyclopedia |year=2019 |title=Benjamin Banneker (Researcher's Note: death date) |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online|Encyclopædia Britannica]] |publisher= |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Banneker/additional-info#Researchers-Note |access-date=29 March 2025 |author-link=Encyclopædia Britannica#Staff |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |author=}}</ref> His chronic [[alcoholism]], which worsened as he aged, may have contributed to his death.<ref>(1) Tyson, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/sketchoflifeofbe00tyso#page/10/mode/1up 10],  [https://archive.org/stream/sketchoflifeofbe00tyso#page/12/mode/1up 12].<br>(2)   [https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/253/mode/1up Bedini, 1999, pp. 253–254.]</ref>

Banneker never married.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Conway |first=Moncure D. |author-link=Moncure D. Conway |date=January 1863 |title=Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Astronomer |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103018420&view=1up&seq=94 |journal=[[The Atlantic|The Atlantic Monthly]] |location=[[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] |publisher=Ticknor & Fields |volume=11 |page=94 |via=[[HathiTrust|HathiTrust Digital Library]] |number=63}}</ref> An obituary concluded "Mr. Banneker is a prominent instance to prove that a descendant of Africa is susceptible of as great mental improvement and deep knowledge into the mysteries of nature as that of any other nation".<ref>(1) [https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/272/mode/1up Bedini, 1999, pp. 272–273.]<br>(2) {{cite web|url=https://www.mdhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-7.jpg|title=Obituary of Benjamin Banneker|date=1806-10-28|publisher=Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser|access-date=2016-03-29|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917011051/https://www.mdhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-7.jpg|url-status=live}} ''In'' {{cite web|author=Maryland Historical Society Library Department|author-link=Maryland Center for History and Culture#Library|url=https://www.mdhistory.org/the-dreams-of-benjamin-banneker/|title=The Dreams of Benjamin Banneker|work=[[Maryland Historical Society#Library|H. Furlong Baldwin Library]]: Underbelly|date=February 6, 2014|access-date=September 17, 2020|archive-date=September 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917003106/https://www.mdhistory.org/the-dreams-of-benjamin-banneker/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A commemorative [[obelisk]] that the Maryland [[United States Bicentennial|Bicentennial]] Commission and the State Commission on [[African American history|Afro American History]] and [[African American culture|Culture]] erected in 1977 near his unmarked grave stands in the [[Churchyard|yard]] of the Mount Gilboa [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]] in [[Oella, Maryland|Oella]], Maryland (see [[Mount Gilboa Chapel]]).<ref>(1) [http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5859 "Benjamin Banneker" marker]. ''In'' [[Historical Marker Database|HMdb: The Historical Marker Database]]<br />(2) Coordinates of Benjamim Banneker obelisk:  {{coord|39.2749641|-76.778807|type:landmark|format=dms|name=Benjamin Banneker obelisk}}</ref>