| 4. | James* Carrell, Jr. (eldest) (immigrant) was born about 1697 in Rathmullan, Co Donegal, Ulster, Ireland (son of James* Carrell, Sr. (immigrant) and Sarah* Dungan); died on 17 May 1749 in Northampton Twp, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. Notes:
John W. Wilkinson, "Autobiography and Historical Reminiscences," (a copy in Salt Lake Library), tells us that Robert Wear married a "Holland dutch" woman, or at least her mother was from Holland and her father was an Englishman kidnapped from his country when a small boy by a sea captain and turned loose lonely, penniless, and friendless on the then almost wild shores of the Chesapeake Bay. When Olda Edwards found out that Robert Wear married Rebecca Carrell, her search took her to Diana Van Kirk whose forefathers had served the West Indian Company and traded beads for Manhattan. The family must have been very proud of this connection for the story has been carried down six generations.
The story of James Carrell is just as amazing. Wilkinson states that William Carroll/Carrell, a sheep and wool merchant adopted the friendless abandoned boy and raised him as his own. The boy grew to manhood and followed the sea managings father's affairs. James Carrell married Diana Van Kirk and was the father of Rebecca Carrell. When he died his adopted mother placed the coat "of curious construction" he had on when he came to them in his coffin. An old woman observed the coat and said, "If it were possible, I should claim some remembrance of that coat. Many years have passed since, but if I am not mistaken, I made that coat with my own hands for a little nephew of mine in old England. He was lost directly after the coat was made with the coat on, and all the search and inquiry we could make, we never could learn anything of him. His mother died of grief and his father would have paid thousands for his return." Mrs. Carroll explained how she and Mr. Carroll had adopted a homeless boy and they compared dates until both were satisfied that this was indeed the woman's nephew. The old woman took the coat back to the father in England as a testimonial of what had happened to his son.
It has been proven that William Carrell was indeed James Carrell and his adopted son, James Carrell, Jr. James Carrell, Sr., settled in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania about 1700 and possibly came from Rhode Island in 1683 with Rev Thomas Dungan. s Carrell, Sr., married Sarah Dungan, the daughter of Rev Thomas Dungan and Elizabeth Weaver. (Rev.Thomas Dungan was the son of William Dungan and Frances Latham. He died in 1687 in Bucks Co, PA. Elizabeth Weaver was the daughter of Clement Weaver and Mary Freeborn, granddaughter of William Freeborn, and she died in 1697 in Cold Springs, PA.)
Tradition relates that James Carrell, Sr., was a weaver and had a mill or loom in Philadelphia here he wove linen and linsey-woolsey. He purchased 100 acres of land in Southhampton in 1704 and lived there until his death about 1730. This Cll homestead (Carrelton) was a tract of land purchased from Thomas and Clement Dungan, it being a tract of land purchased by the Dungans of the widow of Arthur Cook in 1699 for a sum of five shillings lawful money. It was originally part of a tract of 1,000 acres purchased by Arthur Cook from James Claypool and Robert Turner, commissioners for William Penn in 1686.
James Carrell and his wife Sarah Dungan had six children:
1. (adopted) James, who married Diana Van Kirk
2. Benjamin Carrell who died in 1733
3. Elizabeth Carrell, m Samuel Gilbert of Warminster
4. Sarah Carrell, m Silas McCarty
5. Lydia, m Robert Thompkins
6. unnamed daughter
In 1732 the other heirs of James Carrell, Sr., conveyed the homestead in Southhampton to the eldest son James and in 1731 he also purchased the Northampton homestead on which he settled and lived until his death in 1750.
The family were of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock and are supposed to have emigrated from Scotland or Ireland in the 17th Century. Tradition relates that James Carrell, Sr., was imprisoned in Londonerry during that memorable siege of 105 dand soon after came to America.
James Carrell, Jr., was a man of great energy and drive and accumulated a large amount of property and wealth. He left three farms and about $4,000 in money. He and his wife Diana Van Kirk had eleven children, though John Wilkinson mentioly one; Rebecca born 25 May 1725, who married Robert Wear.
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Land sale: 19 Aug 1732 100 Acres, Warminster Township, Bucks County, PA
Indenture clearly states that James Carrell, eldest son of James Carrell, late of the James place, deceased.
Land Sale 22 Oct 1748 100 Acres And 50 Acres Land, Northampton Township, Bucks County, PA [3]
On July 21, 1749, Dinah, appearing after James death, stating that the she was Administrator of the mortgage for James Carrell's estate.
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From: John Reedy
Date: 04/05/09 10:14:29
To: 'Sherry'
Subject: James Carrell
Sherry,
I seem to recall that I owed you a response to an item that came up on your gedcom from last year.
It was on James Carrell Jr. ? remember, you had a story that from a Wilkinson book that he was really adopted and I had never heard that.
I doubt that the story is true for several reasons.
I got to do firsthand research in Bucks County, PA as it was only an hour from where we lived and Sandy and I went there several times. They have a really nice genealogy center there. A number of people had done Carrell, Dungan and Wear research before us. One of those was named Ezra P. Carrell and we were able to view his work while there. Also, more work by a John Beans Carrell, Ezra's son.
Your story says that "It has been proven that William Carrell was indeed James Carrell." ??
I have never seen that. Every bit of material that I have seen or read says that his name was James Carrell Sr. and that he emigrated about 1695 and first took up business in Philadelphia.
Also, I doubt that the Wilkinson story is true for another simple reason. An adoptee would very likely never be named after the father and be known as Jr.
Certainly, that name would go to his own flesh and blood son.
Your story also mentions "Olda Edwards" and her name is really Olga Jones Edwards and she and Ida Wear Roberts wrote a book entitled "East Tennessee Pioneers" and either I have that book or I have seen it and it is about the Wear families and others, but is thin on Carrell, Van Kirk and Dungan items. It does not mention the Wilkinson story that I recall. Olga may have also written another book and if so, the title escapes me.
My guess is that this is a case of a hand-me-down story that made a wrong turn somewhere with confused facts. For instance, it says "The boy grew to manhood and followed the sea managing his father's affairs." Neither James Sr. or James Jr. were seamen. James Sr. was in the weaving business and James Jr. lived on the family estate; the inventory after his death shows weaving items and farm implements and sheep, cattle, etc.
As confusing as this might be, I found that the Wear or Weir family was just plain ridiculous.
Olga got confused on that one too. You have whole families of Hugh, John and George Wear right next to another with the exact same names, most all of these in Virginia.
John
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Sources (John Reedy)
...History of Bucks County, PA, William H. Davis, (Lewis Publishing Co., New York, NY - Chicago, IL, 1905), Volume III, pp. (Reliability: 3).
299-301 James CARRELL, Jr., married Diana VAN KIRK, of Holland descent, daughter of Bernard and Rachel (VANDEGRIFT) VAN KIRK, and granddaughter of Jan Janse VER KIRK or VAN KIRK, who emigrated to Long Island in 1663 from the little town of Bueer Maetsen, in Gelderland, Holland, and settled at New Utrecht, where he died in 1688. His wife was Maykje GYSBERTS and they were the parents of the following children; Roelof Janse, born 1654; Aert Janse, born 1655; Geertje, married Jan Dirckse VAN VLIET; Barentje, married Nicholas VANDEGRIFT; Cornelis Janse; Jan Janse, Jr. and Bernard or Barnet, the father of Diana, above mentioned, who married Rachel VANDEGRIFT. The maternal ancestor of Diana (VAN KIRK) CARRELL is given in full in this work under the head of "The VANDEGRIFT Family." James and Diana CARRELL were the parents of eleven children, viz; Rebecca, born May 25, 1725, married Robert Weir, of Warrington, and their descendants later migrated to Kentucky. Sarah, born September 25, 1726, married Robert PATTERSON, of Tinicum, whose descendants settled in Virginia, from whence they migrated to Ohio and Missouri. Bernard married Lucretia McKNURE and settle d on one of his father?s farms in Warminster purchased of the heirs of Rev. William TENNENT, and including the site of the famous log college of which TENNENT was the founder, and which remained in the tenure of the descendants of Bernard until quite recently. James, born March 26, 1730, married Sarah ----- and settled in Tinicum township, Bucks county, in 1765, on land purchased of his brother Solomon and died there leaving four children who have numerous descendants scattered over the whole union. He was a private in the associated company, of Tinicum, Nicholas PATTERSON captain, during the revolution. Jacob and Rachel (twins), born April 27, 1735; Rachel became the second wife of Robert STEWART, of Warwick, Bucks county, and after her husband's death settled with her son Robert in Tinicu m, from whence the family migrated to New Jersey. Phoebe, born August 20, 1837, married Andrew SCOUT, of Warminster. Solomon, born May 25, 1740, died 1777, married Mary VAN KIRK, and in 1761 purchased a farm of three hundred and five acres in Plumstead, one hundred and forty-three acres of which he conveyed to his brother James in 1765 and the balance of which he sold in 1774, and then settled in Kensengton, Philadelphia; he went with WASHINGTON to New York, dying of the fever on Staten Island, whence his body was never removed; his widow married Charles RYAN, and died in Wallingford, Chester county, in 1821. Descendants of Solomon now reside in Chester, Pennsylvania, and in Delaware. Elizabeth, born May 16, 1742. Diana married Elias DUNGAN, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and has left numerous descendants; her daughter Rachel married Jesse JOHNSON.
--- Deed, from James Carrell Jr. (Reliability: 3).
and Dinah, his wife, of Northampton to Gideon DeCa mp 100 acres, including houses, barns and buildings in Warminster Township for the sum of 132 pounds, lawful money of Pennsylvania. Recorded Oc t 14, 1756. Bucks County Court records, Book and pages unknown.
--- Deed, Bucks Co. Book pages 487, 488 James Carrell and Dinah, his wife, selling two separate parcels of land totalling 150 acres to William Atwood, merchant of Philadelphia or three hundred pounds. Mortgage given for 150 pounds. (Reliability: 3).
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James* married Diana* Van Kirk on 17 Aug 1723 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania. Diana* (daughter of Bernard* (Barent Verkirk) Van Kirk and Rachel Jacobse Vandegrift) was born in 1697 in Bensalem, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania; died after 1761 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (possibly). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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