Michael BENTZ
Shenandoah County (Va.) Pence Family Group Sheets
Records of Pastoral Acts at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1730-1799, pgs. 19, 20, 7, 193, (FHL#974.815/N2, K29N)
Pennsylvania Births, Lancaster County, 1723-1777, pg. 22, (FHL#974.815, K2h, Vol. 1)
A New Index, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Before the Federal Census, Index to the 1750 Tax Records, pg. 7, (FHL#974.815, R22h, Vol. 3)
A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania, pg. 80, (FHL#974.8, W2Ra, 1985)
Pennsylvania German Pioneers, pg. 78 & 81, Vol. 43, (FHL#974.8, B4pg, Volume 42)
Marriage Records of Reverend John Casper Stoever (www.chm.davidson.edu)
Baptismal Records of Reverend John Casper Stoever (www.chm.davidson.edu)
Internet IGI, Mar 2009
New Family Search, September 2012
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18th Century, Vol. 1, pg. 90
NOTES: Anna probably died in childbirth in 1744 or 1745. NAME: Anna Elisabetha or Lis HUBER
NAME: Surname in German is Bentz, spelling was changed after the family arrived in America. NOTE: Michael died 25 Dec 1799 in Adams County, Ohio (or near Maysville, Kentucky) when he drowned while attempting to cross the Ohio River when his horses bolted from the ferry. The inventory of his estate was returned 17 January 1800 in Adams County, Ohio.
NOTES: 1. Maria Lisbeth was christened 27 Sep 1747. She was probably born in 1744 or 1745.
He married Anna Elisabetha Huber 10 May 1737 at Earl Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania . Anna Elisabetha Huber was born at Shenandoah, Virginia Abt 1716 daughter of Hans Huber and Margaret Koch .
They were the parents of 5
children:
Michael Pence
born 12 Mar 1738.
Johannes Bentz
born 8 Mar 1740.
Johannes Peter Bentz
born 28 Nov 1741.
Maria Barbara Bentz
born 13 Sep 1743.
Maria Lisbeth Bentz
born Abt 1744/45.
Michael Bentz died Bef Oct 1850 at Earl Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania .
Anna Elisabetha Huber died Bef 17 Feb 1746 at Earl Twp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania .