Esther (Bertolet) de Benneville (1720 - 1795)

Born 12 Aug 1720 in Minfeld, the Palatine (Pfalz), Germany

Ancestors

Wife of George (de Benneville) De Benneville — married 1745 in Oley, Berks, Pennsylvania Colony

Descendants

Died 7 Mar 1795 at age 74 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Esther (Bertolet) de Benneville was a daughter of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Name: Esther /(de) Bertolet/^[1][2] Esther was born in 1720 in the Palatine (Pfalz) to a French Huguenot refugee family. She married Dr. George de Benneville in Berks County, Pennsylvania Province. She passed away in 1795 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr. George de Benneville was one of the early practitioners of medicine in Oley township, where he was located before 1750. He was born in London July 26, 1703, a descendant of George de Benneville, a Frenchman of Normandy, born in the city of Rouen. The Doctor's father, who bore the same name, was a "French refugee, who, being persecuted for his religion, retired with his family and connections into England upon invitation of His Majesty King William, who took a tender care of them and employed them at his court." After a varied career, in his thirty-eighth year (1741), with the aid of Queen Anne, of England, Dr. de Benneville came to Philadelphia. He was in failing health at the time of his arrival, but the changed environment was to bring renewed strength. Benneville was met at the wharf by Christopher Sauer, the printer of the oldest Bible in this country, who did not know him but was led to meet him by the influence of a dream. He took the stranger home with him and there Benneville met Jean Bertolet, of Oley, Berks County, where a colony of Huguenots had settled. The Bertolets had located there as early as 1726.

Jean Bertolet persuaded the Doctor to settle near him in the forest, and in 1745 he married Esther de Bertolet, daughter of Jean. While in Oley, he taught school, practiced medicine and preached the gospel, becoming the founder of the Universalist Church in America. He held the first meetings in the home which he had built (on the farm at one time owned by Daniel Knabb) near the "Oley line" for teaching the doctrines and beliefs of that religious denomination. The walls of this historic old de Benneville house in Oley Township are still standing, although it was erected in 1745. He was there until 1755, when he moved to Branchtown on the old York road, Philadelphia County, where he acquired an extensive medical practice. He died there in 1793, aged ninety years, and his wife died in 1795, aged seventy-five years. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S4 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
2. ↑ Source: #S4 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
3. ↑ Montgomery, Morton L. Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania. Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co. 1909. p. 329.

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• "A genealogical history of the Bertolet family, the descendants of Jean Bertolet" Compiled by Daniel H. Bertolet, Pottstown, PA Published by the Bertolet Family Association, 1914 link: [1]

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