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Note: N1 PLEASE NOTE - If using any data or information from this published genealogy, the proper source citation is as follows:
Jana Shea <allkindred@gmail.com>, "The Bender Family of Philadelphia", GEDCOM database uploaded 2011, RootsWeb (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2009), <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pa%2Dbender>, accessed on [insert date viewed here]
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Jacob Bender was also known by surname Painter in early Philadelphia deed records. His origins remain unknown at this point. Family tradition passed down through his son, John Benders line claims that Jacob is the son of a Jacob Bender/Painter who immigrated in 1693 and settled in Pelham area of Germantown (now Mt. Airy).
Johannes Kelpius, leader of the so-called Mystics of the Wissahickon, together with a group of 40 German celibate followers of the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness arrived in Philadelphia in 1694 aboard the ship, Sarah Maria Hopewell. They settled along the Wissahickon Creek in Germantown. After Kelpius died in 1708, the religious group disbanded, and most of the men married and settled down in the area. Whether or not Jacob Painter/Bender descends from a progenitor who arrived in Philadelphia in 1693 or 1694 is yet unproven.
He does not appear to have a connection with any other Bender/Painter families in Northern Liberties or of St. Michael & Zion Lutheran Church, except for a Johannes Painter/Penter and his wife, Carolina, who were the sponsors of Jacob and Dorotheas daughter, Carolina.
All four of Jacob and Dorothea Benders sons fought in the Revolutionary War, including his youngest son, Godfrey, who was 16 years old when he enlisted.
A daughter, Maria, may have been born to Jacob and Dorothea Bender ca 1763. This could be the Mary Bender who married a man surnamed Mower/Moyer and still living, age 74 in 1838, per the pension file of John Bender. Baptismal record not yet found.
By 1771, Jacob had acquired 15 acres of farm land four miles outside of the city, in West Northern Liberties Township (today the Allegheny West neighborhood). He also owned property in the Northern Liberties neighborhood within the city limits. Jacob put his farm up for sale after Dorotheas death and just months prior to his second marriage to Catharina Fister.
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* newspaper mention:
from the Pennsylvania Evening Post, 23 January 1777:
CAME to the plantation of the subscriber in the Northern Liberties, near the Rising Sun, a small MARE COLT, supposed to be between two and three years old. The owner is desired to come within one month from the date hereof, prove his property, pay charges, and take her away, otherwise she will be sold for the expences.
Philad. Jan 23 JACOB PAINTER.
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* extracts of land records:
Philadelphia Deed Book I Volume 10 Page 551:
24 May 1772 Indenture between Joseph Turner, Jr. and wife, Elizabeth, of Southwark and Jacob Painter, carpenter of Northern Liberties and Dorothy, his wife for consideration of 77 pounds, a 5 1/2 acre and 23 perches lot in Northern Liberties on the north side of new fifty feet street called North Street.
Philadelphia Deed Book I Volume 13 Page 173, 177-80:
3 May 1771 John Penn to Jacob Bender of Northern Liberties for consideration of 101 pounds and 1 shilling, 4 acres and 63 perches…
5 Apr 1773 Jacob and Dorothy Bender to John Dickinson of Fairhill for consideration of 73 pounds…
8 May 1773 John Penn to Jacob Bender…
3 Nov 1773 Martin Noll, baker and wife Elizabeth to Jacob Bender, yeoman for consideration of 88 pounds and 12 shillings 4 acres and 69 perches of Lot No. 17.
from the Pennsylvania Packet, 25 August 1785:
BY VENDUE.
On THURSDAY the 1st of September, will be Sold on the Premises, to the highest Bidder,
TWO valuable FARMS in the Northern-Liberties, within 4 miles of the town, well improved, divided into such lots as the subscribers hope will suit the purchasers; the one called Kenderton, formerly the property of Mrs. Rebecca Venables; the other, that of Jacob Bender, adjoining the former. Plans of each to be seen at the Coffee-Houses. A small part of the purchase money will be required at the execution of the deeds, and an extensive credit given for the remainder, by THOMAS BOND
VENABLES BOND
JACOB BENDER
The sale to begin precisely at two o’clock, when the terms will be made known.
Aug. 23 epts.
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May be related to Johannes/John Painter who died in Spetember 1768.
PAINTER, JOHN. Phila. Co. Yeoman.
September 11, 1768. September 16, 1768.
Wife: Carolina.
Children: Christena, Mary and Susanna.
Daughter in law: Elizabeth Davis. Friend: Mary Rabotean.
Execs.: Jacob Whitman, Jno. Peltz and Geo. Shneck.
Wit: Jno. Shneck and John Gartley. O.270.
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