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674 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 68.
STARBO.
Starbo, the name of an iron-work in the parish of Norrberke,
or rather Norrbärke, in Dalecarlia. It is situated at the northern
extremity of Lake Barken, near the borough of Smedjebacken. In
the district around this place there are numerous iron -works and
mines. The country itself is described as most beautiful and pic
turesque, and it is not surprizing therefore that it was a favourite
resort of the Swedberg family, and of Swedenborg in particular.
Starbo was the property of Bishop Swedberg’s second wife, Sara
Bergia (see Document 10, p. 147), who was the daughter of Anders
B. Bergius, the Dean and pastor of the Norrberke parish. During
her life-time the works seem to have been managed mostly by Lars
Benzelstjerna , who was the master or governor of mines of the
district from 1713 to 1722, and who, during the whole of that time,
seems to have resided at Starbo, since this is put down as the birth
place of some of his children. Sara Bergia left the whole of the
estate to Emanuel Swedenborg, as appears from Document 131, but
with the proviso that he should pay the other children their share
in money. From a memorandum on the fly -leaf of one of the volumes
containing the “ Spiritual Diary " it appears that Swedenborg possessed
one-half of Starbo, and Lars Benzelstjerna the other. Regarding
the relations between them consult Note 8.
NOTE 69.
ERIC ESBERG.
Eric Esberg, of whom Swedenborg in Documents 54 and 81
speaks as brother Esberg, was the son of Dr. Zacharias A. Esberg,
Bishop of Wexiö, and Christina Benzelia, an elder sister of Ericus
Benzelius. He was born in Stockholm in 1699, where his father was
at that time chaplain to the Queen Dowager, Hedwig Eleonora,64 and
rector of the church on the Riddarholm . He studied at Upsal ; in
1720, he became auscultant in the College of Mines ; in 1740, master
of mines, and in 1747, assessor in the College of Mines. In 1751 he
was ennobled, when he assumed the name of Bergensköld. In 1757
he became councillor of mines. He died in 1769. In Document 61
Swedenborg speaks of the Esbergs in the plural number, meaning
thereby Eric Esberg, and his younger brother Carl Henric Esberg,
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