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France (France) (search for this): entry benezet-anthony
Benezet, Anthony, -1784
Philanthropist; bern in France, Jan. 31, 1713; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, and taught school there nearly all his life.
He became a member of the Society of Friends; and his life was conspicuous for acts of benevolence.
He wrote much against war and African slavery, and bequeathed his estate, on the death of his wife, to the African school in Philadelphia.
He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1784.
Anthony Benezet (search for this): entry benezet-anthony
Benezet, Anthony, -1784
Philanthropist; bern in France, Jan. 31, 1713; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, and taught school there nearly all his life.
He became a member of the Society of Friends; and his life was conspicuous for acts of benevolence.
He wrote much against war and African slavery, and bequeathed his estate, on the death of his wife, to the African school in Philadelphia.
He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1784.
1784 AD (search for this): entry benezet-anthony
Benezet, Anthony, -1784
Philanthropist; bern in France, Jan. 31, 1713; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, and taught school there nearly all his life.
He became a member of the Society of Friends; and his life was conspicuous for acts of benevolence.
He wrote much against war and African slavery, and bequeathed his estate, on the death of his wife, to the African school in Philadelphia.
He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1784.
1731 AD (search for this): entry benezet-anthony
Benezet, Anthony, -1784
Philanthropist; bern in France, Jan. 31, 1713; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, and taught school there nearly all his life.
He became a member of the Society of Friends; and his life was conspicuous for acts of benevolence.
He wrote much against war and African slavery, and bequeathed his estate, on the death of his wife, to the African school in Philadelphia.
He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1784.
May 3rd, 1784 AD (search for this): entry benezet-anthony
Benezet, Anthony, -1784
Philanthropist; bern in France, Jan. 31, 1713; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, and taught school there nearly all his life.
He became a member of the Society of Friends; and his life was conspicuous for acts of benevolence.
He wrote much against war and African slavery, and bequeathed his estate, on the death of his wife, to the African school in Philadelphia.
He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1784.
January 31st, 1713 AD (search for this): entry benezet-anthony
Benezet, Anthony, -1784
Philanthropist; bern in France, Jan. 31, 1713; emigrated to Philadelphia in 1731, and taught school there nearly all his life.
He became a member of the Society of Friends; and his life was conspicuous for acts of benevolence.
He wrote much against war and African slavery, and bequeathed his estate, on the death of his wife, to the African school in Philadelphia.
He died in Philadelphia, May 3, 1784.