1685/86 (35th year of Charles the Second of England) William Lovell of the city of Bristol, mariner, sold land to Joseph Kirle (sometimes written as Joseph Kirk), cooper, of the same city. The land was part of a parcel purchased by Richard Wood in Pennsylvania. [1]
1686 Henry Robins sold land to Joseph Kirll of Philadelphia, merchant. The deed cited deed E1-372-373, which described a lot at High Street and Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. [2] [3]
1691 Joseph Kerle purchased land from Richard Russell. [4] The land might be as described in the preceding recorded deed between Richard Russell and Jeremy Elfreth.
1691 Joseph Kerle, mariner, purchased land from Richard Russell, shipwright, both of Philadelphia. The land was adjacent to land of Jeremiah Elfreth. [5]
1685 Elinor Allen, widow of Nathaniel Allen, sold land to Joseph Kirll. The land was on Front Street. [6]
1696 Joseph Kirll sold land to Abraham Roe. High Street and Chestnut Street were named. Several deeds were cited. [7]
1699 Joseph Keirll and John Farmer were executors for the will of Samuel Cook. Land from the estate was sold to Thomas Masters. [8]
1701 Land of Joseph Keirl in Bucks County was shown on a survey, adjacent to land of Joseph Growden. [9] [10] [11] [12]
1702 Joseph Kirll, merchant, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sold land to the Gandovert family on April 2. The land had been purchased from heirs of Nathaniel Allen. [13]
1719 An indenture between Isaac Warner and Armstrong Smith, shipwright, described land on Society Hill, known as Wind Mill Lot, granted to William Sallway, except for 300 acres from Joseph Keirl [Kirle] and a tract at Tacony belonging to Jonathan Diskinson. [14]
1720 A deed, dated June 24, named Joseph Keirll, of Staten Island, County of Richmond, N. Y. mariner, eldest son and heir at law of Thomas Keirll, late of Maxfield (Makefield) Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Yeoman, deceased; John Keirll, of Maxfield, the other son of said Thomas; Paul Wilmerton, of the City of Philadelphia, Cordwainer and Katherine his wife; Alexander Rickey, of Oxford Township, Co. of Philadelphia, and Ann, his wife; William Dungan, of Bristol Township, County of Bucks, Yeoman, and Mary his wife, they the said Katherine, Ann and Mary being the daughters of the said Thomas Keirll, who conveyed a lot between 2nd and 3rd Streets, facing on Walnut St., 54 ft. wide, to Peter Worrell. [15] [16]
This indenture made the twenty fourth day of June in the sixth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George King of Great Britain & in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty, Between Joseph Keirll of Statin Island in the county of Richmond in the Province of New York Marriner (eldest son & heir at Law of Thomas Keirll late of Mansfield in the County of Bucke in the Province of Pensilvania Yeoman deceased), John Keirll of Mansfield afores'd Yeoman (the other son of the s'd Thomas Keirll deceased), Paul Wilmerton of the city of Philadelphia in the s'd Province of Pensilvania cordwainer and Katherine his wife, Alexander Rickey of Oxford Township in the county of Philadelphia in the s'd Province weaver & Ann his wife, and William Dungan of Bristol Township in the s'd County of Bucks Yeoman & Mary his wife (they the said Katherine, Ann & Mary being the daughters of the s'd Thomas Keirll) of the one part & Peter Worrell of Philadelphia, Fellmonger of the other part. Whereas in & by a certain patent or instrument under the hands of James Claypoole and Robert Turner sometime Commissioners of Property of William Penn Proprietary and Governour of the s'd Province lately deceased, they the s'd commissioners did grant & confirm unto the s'd Thomas Keirll a certain Lot in the city of Philadelphia scituate lying and being between the third and second Streets from the River Delaware containing in Breadth fifty four foot and in length on the East side of the s'd lot ninety seven foot & on the West side thereof one hundred & twenty one foot, Bounded on the northward by the Swamp, to the eastward with John Hughes lot, to the southward with Walnut Street, & to the westwarde with John Carvers Lot. To hold to him the said Thomas Keirll his heirs & assigns forever …
1723 Joseph Keirle occupied land previously owned by Enoch Flower on Front Street, Philadelphia. [17]
1764 The children of Joseph Keirl were mentioned in the will of Joseph Keirl's brother, John Keirl, dated August 24, 1764. [18] [19]
Research Notes:
1729 Sarah, daughter of Joseph Carle, was baptized on July 27, at St. George's Church in Hempstead, Long Island. [20]
1765 Joseph Keyle was taxed for 60 acres in West Fallowfield, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [21]
1766 Joseph Kirle was taxed for 60 acres in West Fallowfield, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [22]
1767 Joseph Keyley was taxed for 60 acres in West Fallowfield, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [23]
1768 Joseph Thyle was taxed for 60 acres in West Fallowfield, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [24]
[1] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E1-209, image 385 of 756, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[2] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E1-426, image 444, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[3] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E1-372, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[4] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E2-238, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[5] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E2-243, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[6] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E2-298, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[7] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, E2-326, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[8] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, F4-306, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[9] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D72-260, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[10] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D68-142, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[11] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D68-154, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[12] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D68-151, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[13] John David Davis, Bucks County Pennsylvania Deed Records 1684-1763 (Heritage Books, 1997), 176, 6-111.
[14] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 10 (Commissions Volume 3) (1896), 421, [InternetArchive].
[15] Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed, F3-262, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[16] Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Island and Dungan genealogy (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing, 1911), 125, [HathiTrust].
[17] William M Mervine. "Abstracts of general loan office mortgages, 13 April, 1723 to 20 February, 1723/24," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 6 (1917), 266-85, at 270, [HathiTrust].
[18] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will, 3-194, [FamilySearchImage].
[19] F. Edward Wright, Abstracts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1685-1785 (1995), 83.
[20] Benjamin D. Hicks, "Records of St George's Church, Hempstead, L.I. Baptisms," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 9 (1878), 182-187, at 184, [HathiTrust].
[21] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 11 (Proprietary Tax Lists Chester 1765-1771) (1897), 39, [HathiTrust].
[22] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 11 (Proprietary Tax Lists Chester 1765-1771) (1897), 213, [HathiTrust].
[23] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 11 (Proprietary Tax Lists Chester 1765-1771) (1897), 365, [HathiTrust].
[24] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 11 (Proprietary Tax Lists Chester 1765-1771) (1897), 491, [HathiTrust].