Esther de Berdt
BIRTH
Oct 22, 1746
London, England
DEATH
September 18, 1780
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
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Berdt, Esther de
(1746-1780)
Esther de Berdt (1746-1780) was a writer and social hostess and the spouse of Joseph Reed. Joseph Reed was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Esther de Berdt to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in London, England and later dying in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Esther de Berdt in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Joseph Reed
(1741-1785)
Joseph Reed
(1741-1785)
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DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 18, 1780
Esther de Berdt was born on Oct 22, 1746 in London, England. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Esther de Berdt with work or public activity as a writer, hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Esther de Berdt died on Sep 18, 1780 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.