CANTRELL GENERATION ONE
1. RICHARD1 Cantrell, (RichardB),
b abt 1666 Bakewell Parish, Derbyshire, England d bef
31 May 1753 Pennsylvania. m abt 1693 Dorothy Jones b ca
1672 Flint or Denbigh, Wales dau of Ellis Jones and Jane ____. Richard's baptism
was on 13 May 1666 in Bakewell Parish, Derbyshire, England. Bakewell
Parish was a brickmaking area, and very likely Richard gre4w up in the
brickmakings trade. He was a brickmaker in Philadelphia after he moved to
Pennsylvania. He probably left England around 1687, sometime after he
reached the age of 21. Quite possibly he came in the company of his nephew
Joseph Cantrell, who was about his age. Joseph drowned in the Schuykill River at
Philadelphia on 10 May 1689. Richard Cantrell, his uncle and nearest of
kin in Pennsylvania, was appointed administrator of Joseph's estate. Richard's
occupation of brickmaker was well suited to Philadelphia, where almost every
building was made of brick. The city was planned, laid out in a logical
pattern, and was well regulated from its beginning. Pennsylvania Archives,
Vol XIX, 6 July 1692, shows that Richard Cantrell was granted a request for a
warrant for a lot of 30 feet on Third Street near the Buyring Ground. Probably
this same lot was sold the next year. Original Records, Deed Book D, 53, p
50, records that on 13 May 1693, Richard Cantrell sold to Thomas Hall, 30 by 190
feet at Third and Market Streets. Richard is thought to have married about
1693, and a few years later he apparently settled into what became his permanent
home. Patent Book A, Vo. II, p 344 contains a lease made on 5 May 1702, by
the Governor of Pennsyvania for a lease of 21 years on more than three acres between Fifth and
Sixth Street "to Richard Cantrill, Brickmaker," the rent to be 40
shillings per year. Certain requirements were made: "Said Richard
Cantrill shall build, erect, and set up a substantial brick house one story and
a half in height and in breadth eighteen feet and in length thrirty-six
feet....said Richard Cantrill sshall make an orchard upon some part of the
hereby granted land, with at least eighty good bearing apple trees planted
thereon, and shall also well and sufficiently fence and enclose the said demised
land."
No disposition of the estate of Richard has been found in the records, and dates
of death for hima and his wife are uncertain. Apparently he had died by 31
May 1753, when the Pennsylvania Archives mention Richard Cantrill's
estate.
Richard married about 1693 Dorothy Jones. Dorothy was born aborn in 1672
in Wales and came to Pennsylvania with her parents in the ship
"Submission" in 1682. She was the third of four children of
Ellis and Jane Jones, who were Quakers and had come to America to escape
religious persecution. Since Richard Cantrell was not a Quaker, he and
Dorothy were married "out of meeting", as the Quaker term goes.
Their apparent first child died, and the Race Street meeting house records list
under Burial os Those Not Friends, "Mary, 1-6, 1695, parents Richard and
Dorothy Cantrill." Dorothy Jones Cantrell is said to have gone so far
from her Quaker upbringing that she attended a masquerade ball in Philadelphia,
and she was apparently fond of social events. Dorothy and Richard
Cantrell, as city dwellers, had what was probably an easier life than many of
their descendants would have when they moved to the frontier communities of the
Carolinas and Tennessee. As shown by the will of Dorothy's mother, Jane
Jones, Richard and Dorothy Jones Cantrell had four known children:
+ 2. i. Mary2 Cantrell b abt 1694 burial 6 Jan 1695 Race
Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA.
+ 3. ii. Joseph2 Cantrell b ca 1695 Philadelphia,
PA m Catharina _______.
+ 4. iii. Zebulon2 Cantrell b abt 1697
Philadelphia, PA, and appears on the tax list in Chester Co., Pennsylvania, in
1718. He was a cordwainer, or shoemake, by occupation. Zebulon moved
later into the Welsh Tract district in New Castle County (now Delaware).
There he was a witness to a will in 1758. In 1763 he bought 200 acres of
land there. Family tradition says that he and his son Joseph moved to
Botetourt Co., Virginia, befor the Revolutionary War.
+ 5. iv. Dorothy2 Cantrell b abt 1710, was living
and unmarried when her grandmother Jane Jones made her will in 1730. No
further information..
ELLIS AND JANE JONES
CANTRELL
GENERATION TWO
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