Individual Details
Johann Melchior BENEDICT Jr.
(May 1716 - 1784)
SOURCE CITATION:
Page: page 31
Text: Benedict, Melchoir - died August 17, 1782. Probated 26 May 1784.
Executor John Hay and Grace Lewis Lifler. Dover Twp., York Co. PA.
Wife is Catharine Benedict.
Title: Abstract of York County Wills
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Text: Melchior Benedict of Dover Twp, York Co., PA leaves to wife
Catharina. Written 17 Aug 1782. Probated 26 May 1784
Title: Melchoir Benedict Will
Repository Name: York County Courthouse
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Page: page 52-53
Text: #35 Benedict, Melchior 6921 Ialingen
Arrived on "Dragon" 1749. S-H 413
In the KB there are two communicants lists who mention people
leaving for Pennsylvania. The 1749 lists contacts Johann Melchoir
Benedict and wife (the wife died)
Title: Eighteenth Century Emigrants - The Northern Kraichgau
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Page: page 52-53
Text: Melchior Benedict and wife Maria Elisabeth had 8 children:
Joh. Jacob born 12 May 1703
Anna Catharina b 2 Oct 1704
Maria Catharina b 12 jan 1707
Joh. Dieterich b 11 June 1710 (q.v.)
Joh. Bernhard b 18 Sept 1712
Joh. Melchior b May 1716
Maria magdalena b 17 Nov 1720
Joh. Heinrich b 25 Aug 1721
Title: Ittlingen Lutheran KB records
Publication Information: Eighteenth Century Immigrants
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
Additional information on family came from unsigned family history
sheets at York County Historical Society in the Benedick family file.
Main residence was Conewago Twp., York Co.,PA
His will was probated 26 May 1784.
July 1999 from the Pennsylvania Germany Society 974.8 K6855 at
Martin memorial Library York PA, page 285, #115:
I,413: Melchior Benedict, Phil. Sept 26, 1749, ship "Dragon".
HPf: From Ittlingen.
BIRTH: of Ittingen, Kr, Sinsheim, Baden-Wurt, Germany (by Kushner)
Page: page 31
Text: Benedict, Melchoir - died August 17, 1782. Probated 26 May 1784.
Executor John Hay and Grace Lewis Lifler. Dover Twp., York Co. PA.
Wife is Catharine Benedict.
Title: Abstract of York County Wills
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Text: Melchior Benedict of Dover Twp, York Co., PA leaves to wife
Catharina. Written 17 Aug 1782. Probated 26 May 1784
Title: Melchoir Benedict Will
Repository Name: York County Courthouse
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Page: page 52-53
Text: #35 Benedict, Melchior 6921 Ialingen
Arrived on "Dragon" 1749. S-H 413
In the KB there are two communicants lists who mention people
leaving for Pennsylvania. The 1749 lists contacts Johann Melchoir
Benedict and wife (the wife died)
Title: Eighteenth Century Emigrants - The Northern Kraichgau
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Page: page 52-53
Text: Melchior Benedict and wife Maria Elisabeth had 8 children:
Joh. Jacob born 12 May 1703
Anna Catharina b 2 Oct 1704
Maria Catharina b 12 jan 1707
Joh. Dieterich b 11 June 1710 (q.v.)
Joh. Bernhard b 18 Sept 1712
Joh. Melchior b May 1716
Maria magdalena b 17 Nov 1720
Joh. Heinrich b 25 Aug 1721
Title: Ittlingen Lutheran KB records
Publication Information: Eighteenth Century Immigrants
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
Additional information on family came from unsigned family history
sheets at York County Historical Society in the Benedick family file.
Main residence was Conewago Twp., York Co.,PA
His will was probated 26 May 1784.
July 1999 from the Pennsylvania Germany Society 974.8 K6855 at
Martin memorial Library York PA, page 285, #115:
I,413: Melchior Benedict, Phil. Sept 26, 1749, ship "Dragon".
HPf: From Ittlingen.
BIRTH: of Ittingen, Kr, Sinsheim, Baden-Wurt, Germany (by Kushner)
Events
| Birth | May 1716 | Hintzweiler, Zweibruechen, Germany |  | ||
| Marriage | 10 March 1752 | Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Maria Catharina QUICKEL |  | | |
| Death | 1784 | Dover Twp, York, Pennsylvania | | ||
| Burial | 1784 | Quickel's Church, Conewago Twp., York, Pennsylvania | |||
| Alt name | BENDICT |
Families
| Spouse | Maria Catharina QUICKEL (1734 - 1796) |
| Child | Johann Philip BENEDICT (1753 - ) |
| Child | Maria Catharina BENEDICT (1753 - 1807) |
| Child | Elizabeth BENEDICT (1754 - ) |
| Child | George BENEDICT (1755 - 1816) |
| Child | Barbara BENEDICT (1760 - 1796) |
| Child | Michael BENEDICT (1762 - ) |
| Child | Maria Margaret BENEDICT (1764 - 1796) |
| Child | Johann Peter BENEDICT (1769 - ) |
| Child | Johann Nicolaus BENEDICT (1771 - ) |
| Child | Sabina BENEDICT (1775 - 1851) |
| Child | Christina BENEDICT (1777 - 1796) |
| Child | Johann Melchior BENEDICT (1780 - 1857) |
Notes
Marriage
SOURCE CITATION:Page: page 52-53
Text: PEnnsylvania Records:
Trinity Lutheran KB, Lancaster:
Married 10 March 1752 Melchoir Benedict, widower, and Maria
Catharina Quickel, d/o Philp Quickel.
Title: Eighteenth Century Emigrants - The Northern Kraichgau
Repository Name: York County Historical Society
Address: York PA
SOURCE CITATION:
Page: page 4
Text: The marriage record of Melchior Benedick shows that he was a native
of Zweybrecht, Germany. He landed at Philadelphia on 26 Sept. 1749,
married Catharine Quickel on March 10, 1752, and moved into York
County about 1763. He settled on a 106 acre tract of land located
in what is now Conewago Twp. York Co PA where he died and was buried
at the QUickel church. His will was
probated 26 May 1784.
Catharine later married a Jacob Sheaffer, a widower who lived west
of Dover and he died in 1794. Her will was dated 8 March 1796. The
descendants of Catharine were the only one of the immigrant Philip
Quickel that remained in York County PA.
Title: Quickel Ancestral History
Author: unknown
Call #: Bendict Family file
Repository Name: York Co. Historical Society Library
Address: York PA
The marriage record of Melchoir Benedick shows that he was a native
of Zweybrecht, Germany. He landed at Philadelphia on 26 Sep 1749.
Married Catharine Quickel on 10 Mar 1752. Moved into York County PA
about 1763 and settled on a 106 acre tract of land located in what
is now Conewago Twp. where he died , and was buried at the QUickel
Church.
Endnotes
1. Joan Kushner Compiled Records, Quickel - Descendants of Hans Quickel from Joan Kushner (desrat@lvcm.com, Las Vegas, NV).
2. Debra Wertz, dwertz@blazenet.net through Dick Deise, ddeise@worldnet.att.net, Quickel - from Debra Wertz, through Dick Deise.
3. Kirschnick, Ulrich, Familien in Brandau (Odenwald), 1635-1910 ( Family lineage book for Brandau, Hessen, Germany, index included.), p. 250 - Bendict, Melchior von ittlingen Krs. Sinsheim, Baden.
4. Joan Kushner Compiled Records, Quickel - Descendants of Hans Quickel from Joan Kushner (desrat@lvcm.com, Las Vegas, NV).
5. Joan Kushner Compiled Records, Quickel - Descendants of Hans Quickel from Joan Kushner (desrat@lvcm.com, Las Vegas, NV).