CANTRELL GENERATION TWO
3. JOSEPH2 CANTRELL, (Richard1),
b abt 1695 Philadelphia, PA m Catharina _____. Joseph is named as a
grandson in the will of Jane Jones, written in 1730. He apparently grew up in
Philadelphia, and moved when a young man to what is now Wilmington, New Castle
County, Delaware, about 20 miles down the Delaware River from Philadelphia. This
area had been settled by the Swedes, including some Finns, in 1638, and they had
established there the Holy Trinity Church, known in later years as "Old
Swedes Church.". The present structure was built in 1698 and is still in
use today. It was Swedish Lutheran until 1791, when the last Swedish
pastor departed and jurisdiction was transferred to the Protestant Episcopal
Church. Joseph married probably married about 1718, his wife was named
Catharina. Susan Christie in 1908 thought that Catharina was probably a
descendant of one of the old Swedish families, and I tend to agree with that
conclusion. Some researchers have thought that Joseph's wife was Catherine
Heath, but I have seen no record or evidence to support that idea.
Joseph Cantrell and h8is wife were attending Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church by
1720, and three of their children were baptized there between 1720 and
1726. Joseph and his family probably lived in the Wilmington area of
Delaware until the 1730's. They are said to have been in Orange Co.,
Virginia, in 1738, and possibly lived there until about 1750. At that time
the proprietor of the Granville District in North Carolina was opening that area
for settlement and offering good land at low prices. Many families
traveled down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia into North Carolina, and Joseph
Cantrell and several of his children were apparently among those who made this
journey. No will or estate settlement for Joseph Cantrell has been found
in Delaware or in North Carolina, but he is thought to have died in North
Carolina. The 1755 tax list of Orange Co., North Carolina, shows Joseph's
son John Cantrell with two taxable white males. Since John's sons were
under 12 years old, it seems likely that joseph Cantrell was the other male, and
that he was living with his son John at that time. Joseph probably died in
the 1760's, but no record has been found of his death. Joseph and Catharina are
thought to have had ten or more children. Children of Joseph Cantrell and Catherina _______:
+ 6. i. Hannah3 Cantrell b 20 Mar 1720,
baptized 25 Apr
1720 Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) Wilmington, Delaware.
7. ii.. Sarah Cantrell b abt 1722, a possible daugher, married
Lawrence Bankston and moved to Orange Co., NC, with the Cantrell family.
The Bankston name comae from Andeers Bengtsson, a Finnish settler among the
Swedish group in Delaware.
+ 8.iii. John3 Cantrell b Oct 1724, baptized on 25
March 1736 in Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, New Castle Co.,
DE (PA). He married two times and had twenty children. m1st ____ Brittian mother
of his first sixteen children. m2nd abt 1770 Jane ______ by whojm he had two
sons and two daughters.
+ 9. iv. Joseph3 Cantrell b June 1726 New Castle
Co., DE (PA) bapt 10 Dec 1726 Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church in Wilmington,
Delaware. He is thought to have moved about 1752 to Randolph Co., NC, and
to have two sons Charles and Joseph.
+ 10. v. Zebulon3 Cantrell b ca 1728 New Castle
Co., DE (PA) d abt 1760m Mary Montgomery who married second David Henly of
Virginia, a Baptist minister. Three known children, Sarah Cantrell m
William Nolen, daughter Cantrell m Joel Chitwood, and Stephen Cantrell b abt
1758.
+ 11. vi. Isaac3 Cantrell b ca 1733 New Castle Co.,
DE (PA) d 1805 Spartanburg Co., SC-myaancestor.
+ 12. vii. James Cantrell.
+ 13. viii. Benjamin Cantrell b abt 1737.
+ 14. ix. Stephen CAntrell b abt 1739.
+ 15. x. Edward Cantrell is possibly a son of Joseph.
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