Samuel Bonnett *
Birth: EST 1735, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 1789, West Virginia, USA
Father: Jacob (Jean Jacques) Bonnett (Bonet)*
Mother: Anna Marie (Ancien) Desreaux *
- Married Mary Elizabeth Lorence (Lorentz)*
- Child 1: Margaret Bonnett * 1759 - 6 May 1792 m. John (Johannes) Waggoner *
- Child 2: John Bonnett 1756 - Sep 1783
- Child 3: Henry Bonnett 8 Oct 1761 - 11 Oct 1799 m. Elizabeth Lorentz
- Child 4: Jacob Bonnett 1762 - 25 Jan 1847 m. Martha Hughes
- Child 5: Lewis Bonnett 1762 - 7 Jan 1850 m. Mary Linger
- Child 6: Peter Bonnett 1764 - 1835 m. Margaret Linger
- Child 7: Samuel Bonnett 4 Apr 1770 - 24 Jan 1840 m. Martha Radcliff
- Child 8: Elizabeth Bonnett 1772 - 1824 m. George Straley
- Child 9: William Bonnett 8 Dec 1774 - 10 Jul 1858 m. Barbara Harpold
- Child 10: Philip Bonnett ABT 1775 - 26 Mar 1860 m. Susan Linger
- Child 11: Mary Bonnett 1777 - 9 Nov 1845 m. Peter Flesher
- Child 12: Susannah Bonnett 1778 - 1858 m. Christian Straley
Notes: In 1766 Samuel Bonnett purchased 205 acres of land on Cedar Creek in Hardy Co.(then Hampshire ) Virginia. In 1777 Samuel leased the land to David Myles. In 1784 Samuel is listed in the H ampshire Co., Virginia census. In 1786 Samuel purchased 400 acres in Monogalia Co., (later Ha rrison Co.) Virginia. In the fall of 1789 a tree fell and killed him.With nine children stil l at home, Mary Elizabeth remarried in February1790 to John Mack.
Travels of Johann David Schoepf from Pen pictures of early western Pennsylvania
[Johann David Schoepf (1752-1800) was the son of a well-to-do merchant in the principality o f Bayreuth, Germany. He was educated in medicine at the University of Erlangen, and after tra veling extensively in Europe, he came to America as the chief surgeon of the Ansbach mercenar ies. He was in the United States from 1777 to 1784. Before his return to Europe
he traveled in America as far west as Pittsburgh and as far south as Florida. In later year s he became president of the United Medical Colleges of Ansbach and Bayreuth and spent consid erable time in scientific research. The following ac-count of Schoepf's journey in a two-whee led chaise from Bedford to Pittsburgh and back in 1783 is from his Travels in the Confederati on, translated and edited by Alfred J. Morrison (Philadelphia, 1911).]
We reached the cabin mentioned to-wards sunset. As before, there was nothing to be had. It wa s 13
miles to the next house, and we concluded to await the rise of the moon which would appear ab out midnight. It began to rain and there was much thunder, and lying on hard deal-boards we h ad to go hungry through the night, man and horse, and hungry keep on over the Dry Ridge whic h now appeared to us doubly dry and barren. . . . We breakfasted with a Bon-net, four miles f rom Bedford; he was of French origin, made bad coffee, had odorous butter, but read to us fro m a French grammaire, and brought out Welleri Opus Mago-Caballis-ticum which he believed to c ontain much hidden wisdom if it could be understood; I referred him to Herrman Husband for en lightenment. In the afternoon we came again with pleasure to the little town of Bedford.
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