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- JOHN CANTRELL WAS BORN IN OCTOBER 1724 IN NEW CASTLE COUNTY, PA.(NOW DELAWARE) AND WAS BAPTIZED 25 MARCH 1726. THE FAMILY GENEALOGIST STATED JOHN WAS MARRIED TWO TIMES AND FROM THE AGES OF THE CHILDREN THIS IS PROBABLY TRUE. IT IS STATED THAT HIS FIRST WIFE WAS A MISS BRITTAIN. THE FAMILY BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE BAPTIST CHURCH AND ISAAC, JOHN'S BROTHER WAS ORDAINED A MINISTER. THE FAMILY SETTLED IN THE "LAND OF EDEN", GRANVILLE COUNTY, NC., WHICH BECAME ORANGE CO. IN SEPT. 1752. JOHN'S FIRST WIFE DIED AND HE MARRIED JANE_______. THE FIRST WIFE IS PROBABLY BURIED AT THE WOLF ISLAND BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY. THE CHURCH WAS FORMED IN 1777 BY HIS BROTHER, ISAAC, ON PART OF HIS 770 ACRE FARM. ISACC'S FIRST WIFE HAD DIED IN THE AREA AND SHE WAS PROBABLY BURIED ON THE RIDGE WHERE THE CHURCH WAS BUILT. JOHN'S WIFE IS PROBABLY BURIED AT THE SAME BURIAL PLACE. JOHN WAS NOT LISTED AS THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD IN THE 1800 CENSUS OF SC, BUT HE WAS LISTED IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF SON, MOSES, AGE 36. THE HOUSEHOLD LISTED A MALE AND FEMALE OVER 45 HEARS OF AGE. WE KNOW THAT JOHN OWNED THREE SLAVES AND THE LISTING FOR MOSES, HAD 3 SLAVES LISTED. JOHN DIED BEFORE FEB. 1803 AND THREE SONS, ABRAHAM, STEPHEN AND MOSES WERE APPOINTED ADMINISTRATORS OF THE ESTATE. JANE RECEIVED A DOWER SETTLEMENT. JOHN WAS PROBABLY BURIED AT THE BUCK CREEK BAPTIST CEMETERY. THE CENTER OF THE CEMETERY HAS AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED GRAVES MARKED BYFIELDSTONES.CHILDREN OF JOHN CANTRELL: 1. ABRAHAM CANTRELL 2. ISAAC CANTRELL 3. JACOB CANTRELL 4. JOSEPH CANTRELL 5. CHARLES CANTRELL 6. JAMES CANTRELL 7. SUSAN CANTRELL 8. STEPHEN CANTRELL 9.* JOHN M. CANTRELL 10. BRITTAIN CANTRELL. THE NAME OF THIS SON HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FROM THE LIST COMPILED BY THE FAMILY GENEALOGIST IN THE EARLY 1900s. THIS RESEARCHER HAS BEEN UNABLE TO LOCATE HIS NAME IN RECORDS OF ANY SOURCE, AND THEREFORE UNABLE TO VERIFY HIS EXISTENCE. 11. THOMAS CANTRELL 12. AARON CANTRELL 13. SIMON CANTRELL 14. MOSES CANTRELL 15. PETER CANTRELL 16. MARGARET CANTRELL 17. WILLIAM CANTRELL 18. DAUGHTER BORN ABT. 1773 IN GUILFORD COUNTY NC. SHE ACCOMPANIED HER PARENTS TO SC. WHERE SHE WAS LISTED AT HOME IN 1790. 19. GABRIEL CANTRELL. THE NAME OF THIS SON HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FROM THE LIST COMPILED BY THE FAMILY GENEALOGIST IN THE EARLY 1900s. ACCORDING TO HER HE WAS THE YOUNGEST SON OF JOHN AND THAT "THERE WAS A TRADITION THAT HE NEVER MARRIED, BUT ACCUMULATED CONSIDERABLE PROPERTY." CENSUS REPORTS, COUNTY RECORDS ETC. HAVE BEEN SEARCHED FOR HIS EXISTENCE. HE WAS PROBABLY THE UNDER 16 YEAR OLD WHO WAS LISTED IN THE 1790 CENSUS. 20. DAUGHTER BORN ABOUT 1777 IN GUILFORD COUNTY, NC. AT HOME IN 1790 AND IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF BROTHER, MOSES IN 1800.
1752-1768 & 1793 Register of Orange Co., NC Deeds Guarantor Guarantee acres witness Isaac Cantrell John Cantril 157 James Watson Joseph Pinson Thomas Dowdy 50 John Cantril Earl of Granville John Cantril 157 Wm. Churton John Cantril William Jones 202 John Cantril
March 25, 1726, CHRISTNED- Old Swedes Trinity Willmington, DE
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1724 - 1803 (78 years)
