Person:Joseph Kirll (1)

"Joseph Kirll, an English sea captain, settled in Philadelphia, about 1690. He married at St. Michael's Parish, Island of Barbadoes [sic], Mary, daughter of John and Mary Brett, of that place. He was doubtless a member of the Society of Friends, as his marriage and the record of his death, as well as tht of his wife, are found on the books of Friends' Meeting at Philadelphia. On 8 December 1691, he purchased a tract of land on Front Street, Philadelphia, extending to the Delaware river, including a wharf and a house, and later purchased sundry other tracts of land, of of which was a tract of sixty-seven acroes, known as Sidbrook Island, and another, a plantation of one hundred and five acres, in Passyunk township. ... His will, dated 4 April 1702, names wife Mary, children John, Brett, and Mary; sister Hannah Lefevre, and 'her daughters Mary and Hannah'; sister Susan Cambridge in England, 'and her children.' His eldest son, John Kirll, was a merchant, and died in 1722. He married, and left surviving him an only child and heiress, Mary, who married Bartholomew Penrose. The second son, Brett Kirll, married, and left surviving him an only son and heir, Joseph Brett Kirll." ^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Leach, Josiah Granville. History of the Penrose family of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: Drexel Biddles, 1903)
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