Genealogy Thomas » Benjamin Simons (1672-1717)

Personal data Benjamin Simons 

• He was born in the year 1672 in Ile de Re, La Rochelle, France.
• He died on August 18, 1717 in Berkeley, South Carolina, he was 45 years old.
• He is buried in Pumpkin Hill Church, Berkeley, South Carolina.

Household of Benjamin Simons

He is married to Mary Esther DuPre.

They got married in the year 1692, he was 20 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Peter Simons  1693-1724 
2. (Infant) Simons  1695-1695
3. Samuel Dupre Simons  1696-1756 
4. Boy Simons  1696-1695
5. Francis Simons  1697-1731 
6. Ann Simons  1699-1765 
7. Mary Simons  1701-1774 
8. Elizabeth Simons  1704-1774
9. ??  
10. Martha Simons  1706-1760 
11. Benjamin Simons  1708-1709
12. Esther Simons  1710-1780
13. Judith Simons  1712-1781 
14. Benjamin Simons  1713-1772 
15. Thomas Simons  1715-1716
16. Catherine Simons  1717-1731

Notes about Benjamin Simons

The oral history handed down of this worthy man is that the family of Josias DuPre who were respectable people in France had to fly from thence to England at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and while in England they found Benjamin Simons, a French child, whom they took onto their family and brought him to settle in the wilderness of South Carolina, and that he afterwards married one of the daughters of Mr. DuPre by the name of Mary Esther, but there is no record to be found of the time of their marriage. Benjamin Simons died the 18th of August, 1717 and was buried at Pumpkin Hill and the little children were taken out of the garden and buried close by their father. He was the father of fourteen children.
RIN: MH:N254

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