BENTZ/PENCE
                            by Robert Mclaren
                                10 Feb 1990

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 From "Tax List of York County, 1779"; (Reprinted from Pennsylvania
Archives), Family Line Publications, Westminister, Maryland, 1989:
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      Page 1, York
 BENTZ, Henry, butcher; tax, 12 pounds (12.0.0)
 BENTZ, Philip; 1 house; 1/2 lot; tax, 25.0.0
 BENTZ, Wyrich; 1 house; 1 lot; tax, 30.0.0
      Page 8, Manchester Township
 BENTZ, Michael; 74 acres; 2 horses; 2 cattle; tax, 15 pounds,
                 18 shillings (15.18.0)
      Page 23, Newberry Township
 PENTZ, Philip; 2 horses; tax, 3.0.0
      Page 29, Windsor Township
 PENCE, Nicholas; 140 acres; 2 cattle; tax, 13 pounds, 2 shillings,
                  2 pence (13.2.2)
      Page 56, Paradise Township
 PENTZ, Nicholas; 100 acres; 2 horses; 2 cattle; tax, 20.0.0
      Page 57, Paradise Township, Single Men
 BENTZ, Andrew; tax, 3.0.0
      Page 68, Warrington Township
 PENCE, John; 10 acres; 2 horses; 3 cattle; tax, 40.7.6
 PENCE, Joseph; 150 acres; 2 horses; 4 cattle; tax, 45.0.0
      Page 108, York Township
 BENCE, George; 158 acres; 4 horses; 4 cattle; tax, 100.14.9
 BENCE, Wyrick; 150 acres; 2 horses; 3 cattle; tax, 80.0.0


 From "History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania"; Warner, Beers & Co.,
Chicago, 1886; Reprint, The Bookmark, Knightstown, Indiana, 1981.
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      Page 368, Borough of Carlisle
 John M. BENTZ, dentist, Carlisle, is a native of Cumberland County,
born at Carlisle, September 24, 1854.  He was graduated from the high
school of that place at the age of seventeen, and soon thereafter began
the study of dentistry at Carlisle.  He subsequently entered the
Pennsylvania Dental College, of Philadelphia, from which he was 
graduated
in 1874, before he was twenty-one years old.  After his graduation he
located in Altoona, Penn., and there remained one year, when he removed
to Carlisle, where he has been quite successful in his business,
increasing, from time to time, until he now has a large practice.
November 11, 1884, he was married to Miss Lulie NORBECK, of Lancaser,
Penn., a native of Gettysburg, Adams County.  Dr. BENTZ was elected a
member of the council of Carlisle in 1883, and re-elected in 1886.  He 
is
a member of the I.O.O.F. and Carlisle Lodge, No. 91, I.O.H.  The parents
of our subject were William and Jane (MELL) BENTZ, both natives of
Carlisle; the former a dry goods merchant.  To Mr. and Mrs. William
BENTZ were born the following children: Abner W., a printer by trade;
Joseph G., a telegraph operator; Samuel, a hadrware merchant; William,
a farmer; John M.; George C., a druggist, of Leadville, Col., and
steward of St. Luke's Hospital; Elizabeth, wife of R. L. BROOMALL,
late counterfeit detector of the United States mint; and Mary M., who
resides with her mother.  The father (William BENTZ) died in 1875, aged
fifty-five years.  He was a member of the I.O.O.F., Carlisle Lodge No.
91.  Weirich BENTZ, the grandfather of our subject, was born at
Ephratah, Lancaster Co. Penn., in 1788.  He was a son of Jacob BENTZ,
a native of the same county, and he, too, a son of Jacob, who emigrated
from Germany, and settled near Ephratah.  Weirich BENTZ learned the
wasgon-makers trade in York County, and when a young man removed to
Lebanon, Penn., where he married Elizabeth ZOLLINGER, a native of
Harrisburg, a daughter of Jacob ZOLLINGER.

 * Origin: CPAFUG: MD(301)Colmbia 290-9530 SlvrSpng 989-8960