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Note: The following info. is from Ed Cantrall and an e-mail he sent to me in early 1999.....
RICHARD CANTRILL Richard Cantrill was baptized in Bakewell Parish Register, Derbyshire, England, on 13 May 1666. His parents were Richard and Alice Cantrill. His sister, An, was baptized on 16 Feb. 1676.
(Source of the above info. is the Bakewell Parish Register. I have a XEROX copy of the two pages which Warren Cantrell gave to another Cantrall relative who sent them to me.)
The following info. comes from the Christie Book. See Source note at end of article.
Richard Cantrill was a resident of Philadelphia, PA prior to 1689. In July, 1689, he was appointed administrator of the estate of Joseph Cantrill, an unmarried nephew, who was drowned in the Schuykill river May 10, 1689.
From "Pennsylvania Archives," Vol. XIX: "At a meeting of the Commissioners, 6th of July, 1692. Present Capt. William Markham, Robert Truner, John Goodson, Richard Cantrill requesting a warrant for a lot of 30 ft. upon Third Street, near the Burying Ground, was granted."
From Original Records, Deed Book D, 53, page 50: "Richard Cantrill to Thomas Hall, Sold 30 ft. x 190ft. May 13, 1693, Third and Market Streets."
In Patent Book Am, Vol. II, page 344, there is a lease for twenty-one years (May 5, 1702) made by Edward Shippen, Griffith Owen and James Logan, as Proprietary and Governor in Chief of Pennsylvania and Territories thereunto belonging of a "Certain track of land between Fifth and Sixth Streets containing three acres and sixty perches" (here follows a full description by metes and bounds) "to Richard Cantrill, Brick maker, with all woods and underwood and trees, ways, waters, water courses, liberties, profits, commodities, advantages and opportunities whatsoever." The rental was forty shillings per year, "current silver money of the Province." "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 thirty-six feet; the first of one brick and a half and second story of one brick, and further that said Richard Cantrill shall 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."
In "Pennsylvania Archives" we find: "Cantrill, Old Rights: Richard Cantrill, city lot 3 acres, 10 day, 10 month, 1701. Rich. return 3 acres, 3 month 1702. Later the Archives record a "Caveat against surveying of land adjoining Richard Cantrill's estate, issuing to the heirs or executors of the said Richard Cantrill, or any under him, May 31, 1753."
No record could be found of the disposition of the estate of Richard Cantrill, either by his heirs or executors, but he evidently died prior to May 31, 1753."
There is a tradition common in the family that the first Cantrill in Philadelphia had a brick yard and built the first brick house in that city. Records show that "the first brick house built in Philadelphia was owned by Robert Turner in 1684-5," and in the same year Richard Cantrill's brother-in-law, Daniel Pegge, also build a brick residence on "Pegge's Run." It is possible that Richard Cantrill had the contract for erecting both of these houses, which would easily account for the tradition in the family.
In about 1693 Richard Cantrill married Dorothy Jones, daughter of Ellis and Jane Jones, who came to America from either Flint or Denbigh, Wales, in the ship Submission, Sept. 1682.
Source: "The Cantrill-Cantrell Genealogy"; Susan Cantrill Christie; The Grafton Press, New York; 1908. LOC Call Number CS71,C233 1908.+
This info. in regard to birth, christening, marriage is secured from the Ancestral File, LDS Church Site.
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