Joseph B. Lynn, Jr.

From the article "Esther KING of Philadelphia & Bucks Counties and her Bowyer, Lynn and Elfreth Children" by Dorothee Hughes Carousso (Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 1966, Vol. 24, No. 4):

JOSEPH LYNN, posthumous son of Esther King and her second husband, Joseph Lynn, was born in Philadelphia 14 June 1691. He was not quite nineteen when his mother died in 1710, and he may have been apprenticed to his half-brother, the shipwright John Bowyer, Jr., who was twenty years his senior. When he married MARTHA HILL on 25 December 1712, he was six months past his twenty-first birthday.

Five years later on 27 May 1717, when he was almost twenty-six, the father of one son, and a full-fledged shipwright, he and his Elfreth half-brothers were admitted freemen of the city. Nine days later, he acquired title to his first property. This was a 25-foot bank and water lot at the "North end" of the city between Vine Street, the town's northern limit, and "the next public street north," later called Callowhill Street. Situated "beyond the Penny pott house" at vine and on the east side of "the Great Road or the front street of sd City" extended northwards, the lot may have been leased by Lynn prior to the time he bought it from Daniel Howell, a Whitemarsh yeoman.

Agreeing to pay the arrears of quit rent due on it, Lynn obtained a patent for the lot the following year under the usual conditions. He was to "wharf out" into the river, and as it had been with his mother, build and maintain "one public pair of stone stairs ten feet wide" from Front Street down to the cartway to be opened between the street and the river, and from thence down to the Delaware. The wharf was to be known as Langston's Wharf, for Thomas Langston, the original owner of the lot.

From below Vine up to Pegg's Run (now Willow Street) the bank was shallow, shelving down gradually to low water mark. At Vine Street, there was considerable erosion. In 1713, the grand jury had presented as a nuisance "the east end of Vine street, where Front street crosses it." In 1718 a gully, running down Vine (originally called Valley Street) and crossing Front Street, was presented as "not passable by coaches, wagons or carts, to the endangering of lives." Six years later, the bank at the end of Vine was again presented as "worn away to the middle of Front Street and very dangerous."

Possibly it was the uncertain conditions at Vine at this time which decided Lynn to invest in land near home, rather than within the city proper and closer to the center of business. At any rate, that year of 1724 he bought for £100 two lots south of his bank lot, but on the west side of Front Street south of the old Willcox rope walk. Cable Lane had been cut through midway between Front and Second Streets between Vine and Callowhill, and Joseph's 34-foot lots ran from Front to the land, and from thence to Second Street.

Since by now his family included five living children, he felt impelled to continue adding to his estate for their future benefit. In 1728, he bought from James Parrock for £175 a house and lot on the south side of Sassafras near Front Street, 137 feet of unimproved ground farther up Sassafras toward Second Street and another lot around the corner on the east side of Second. Obviously his business was prosperous; three years later it was still good enough to enable him to invest, with four others, in the Philadelphia-built 50-ton Ship Dragon, a vessel he may very well have built.

During the thirties as he continued to prosper he acquired other city property. In 1734, he bought for £560 a long, narrow 27-foot lot extending all the way from Front to Second about mid-way between Sassafras and Vine Streets. Two years later, he bought a 25-foot bank lot from Thomas Penrose, another shipwright, for £180. It was on the opposite side of Front Street between Mulberry and Sassafras. In May of the same year, he invested £100 in a copper mine tract of 50 acres up in the back country in McCall's Manor (now Douglas Township, Montgomery County).

These last acquisitions meant little, however, to Joseph Lynn's wife. Just three months after his investment in the copper mine venture, Martha Lynn died on 16 August 1736. She was buried from the Philadelphia Meeting the following day.

Issue of 4. Joseph Lynn by his 1st wife Martha Hill:

i. JOSEPH LYNN, b. 22 April 1716; d. testate in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, about November 1803, ae. 87; m. 1st at the Philadelphia Meeting 27 8m 1747, SARAH FAIRMAN, d. 15 12m 1756, daughter of Benjamin Fairman and his wife Susanna Field; m. 2nd SARAH HILL, probably the "Mrs. Linn" bur. at Christ Church 17 September 1827. At Joseph's death the newspapers noted that he had been for "many years a respectable shipbuilder of Kensington." The shipyard seems to have been moved to that location after 1750, when Joseph Lynn bought from the heirs of the Anthony Palmer estate for £725 the latter's "Capitol Messuage" and a large tract of land on the northeast side of Hanover Street (now Columbia Avenue), extending to the Delaware River, as well as meadow land at the causeway leading over Gunner's Run. In 1770, Joseph bought a farm in Cheltenham Township where he was regularly assessed after that on 83 acres and assorted livestock. In 1790 in that township, he had 4 males over 16 in his household, including himself, 3 males under 16, and 5 females. Issue: 1. JOHN LYNN, d. 3 3m 1750. 2. SARAH LYNN, b. ca. 1754; d. 15 11m 1803, ae. 49, according to Northern District Monthly Meeting records; m. by the Mayor of Philadelphia 7 May 1801, GEORGE WILSON, d. 7 June 1820. 3. FRANKLIN LYNN, m. by 1797 to one REBECCA, surname not known. 4. JOSEPH LYNN. 5. JEREMIAH LYNN, probably d. by 22 May 1823, when letters of administration on his estate were granted Mary Lynn, possibly his wife. 6. JOHN LYNN, living in 1802, when his father wrote his will. 7. ESTHER LYNN, said to have m. MICHAEL MYERS of Whitemarsh. 8. BENJAMIN LYNN. 9. WILLIAM LYNN. 10. MARY LYNN, m. SAMUEL FELTY, probably b. 20 November 1774; d. 23 April 1854, ae. 79-5-30, son of Jacob and Ann Felty.

ii. JOHN LYNN, b. 17 September 1718; bur. in Philadelphia 17 2m 1802, ae. 83-3-17; m. 25 3m 1749, MARY COOPER, b. ca. 1730; bur 25 4m 1792, ae. 62, daughter of William Cooper of Philadelphia. John Lynn started out as a shipwright like his father and brothers, but in 1750 purchased a house and lot on the south side of High Street between Front and Second for £1095, and some time thereafter became a shopkeeper. By 1780, he was assessed there, next door to the printer William Hall, as a "gentleman." He apparently retained a large portion of his share of his father's estate and, by leasing out the several tracts to tenants, received a substantial income in rents. Issue: 1. MARTHA LYNN, b. 1750; d. testate 10 6m 1808, ae. 58; m. 1st at St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church 8 April 1779, JOHN KEPPELE, b. ca. 1754; bur. 31 10m 1779, ae. 25, widower of her sister Deborah. When he died, he was lieutenant colonel of the First Battalion, Philadelphia city militia. She m. 2nd JOSEPH PARKER, who d. after 1808. At the time of her first marriage, she was disowned by Friends 30 4m 1779, for marrying "her brother-in-law" contrary to discipline, but appears to have been reinstated before her death. 2. DEBORAH LYNN, b. 17 March 1752; bur. 24 11m 1776; m. 1st by New Jersey license dated 25 July 1772, JAMES LUKENS, b. ca. 1751; d. 6 3m 1776, ae. 23; m. 2nd 2 October 1776, JOHN KEPPELE, as above. She also was disowned for marrying contrary to discipline one not a Friend. 3. JOSEPH LYNN, b. between 1754 and 1758; d. intestate 10 October 1800; m. at Providence, under auspices of the Chester Monthly Meeting, 17 6m 1784, ANN MORRIS, b. 1 8m 1760; d. testate 20 1m 1825, daughter of Jonathan and Alice Morris of Chester County.

iii. ELIZABETH LYNN, b. 13 June 1720; d. after 1755; m. at the Philadelphia Meeting 24 7m 1742, ABRAHAM GRIFFITH, b. in Richland Township, Bucks County, 12 2m 1713; d. 25 October 1798,near Mt. Holly, New Jersey, son of Abraham Griffith and his wife Hannah Lester. Though Elizabeth had been left a plantation in Neshaminy of 130 acres by her father, the Griffiths lived first in Burlington, N.J. A miller by trade, Abraham was also a travelling Friend and appears to have moved around from place to place. From Burlington he moved back to Bucks County about 1748, then became a member of Abington Monthly Meeting where the births of their children were recorded. He was living in Norriton Township in 1774, and was in Upper Merion Township through 1780, when he had 1 male under 16 and 5 females in his family. Issue: 1. JOSEPH GRIFFITH, b. 31 10m 1745; living in 1790; m. by license dated 3 January 1774, MARY THORNTON. 2. HANNAH GRIFFITH, b. 13 5m 1748; d. 1815 in Haverford; m. at St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Germantown, 30 April 1769, THOMAS BARTON, presumably living in Radnor Township, Delaware County, in 1790. 3. MARTHA GRIFFITH, b. 23 11m 1750; d. 1750. 4. ABRAHAM GRIFFITH, b. 14 8m 1752. 5. SAMUEL GRIFFITH, b. 16 9m 1755.

iv. MARTHA LYNN, b. 29 May 1722; d. in Bucks County 7 12m 1774; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 14 3m 1751, HENRY DENNIS, son of John Dennis of Salem, New Jersey; d. probably in New York State after 1791. Henry Dennis was a widower when he married Martha Lynn. His first wife, Grace Bacon, whom he had married at Salem Monthly Meeting in 1741, had died in Philadelphia 27 1m 1749/50, leaving an infant daughter Rebecca who died unmarried 19 3m 1798, ae. 48. A ship-carpenter by trade, Dennis appears to have been a somewhat contentious man, at least in his dealings with his wife's relations. In 1759, before Joseph Lynn's city property was partitioned, Dennis and his brother-in-law Joseph Lynn, Jr. appeared before the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting "with a paper condemning their rash imprudent conduct…in quarreling." Again, early in 1761, he complained to the Meeting "against Jeremiah Lynn that a matter of Variance" subsisted between them. If these matters of variance had to do with his father-in-law's estate, Dennis's complaints appear to have borne fruit. In the following June, partition finally was made of the city lots and ground rents left by Joseph Lynn to his daughters. Martha and Henry received their lots: two on Second Street and one on Front Street; also, the ground rent issuing out of the bank lot which Lynn had purchased in 1736 and subsequently sold.

Henry Dennis promptly converted the legacy into cash and, in 1765, purchased a half-interest in the old Dewees' mill property on Wissahickon Creek at the upper end of Germantown Township. He held this only two years, then disposed of it. In 1769, he was assessed in Mulberry Ward. In 1774, Martha, wife of Henry Dennis, obtained a certificate from the Philadelphia Meeting for herself and three children, Martha, John and Hannah, to Buckingham Monthly Meeting in Bucks County, where she died early in December of the same year. Henry appears to have returned to Philadelphia: in 1779, one Henry Dennis was assessed in Bristol Township, Philadelphia County. By 1791, he was referred to as being "of New York." Issue: 1. JOHN DENNIS, d. in Philadelphia 13 12m 1756. 2. HENRY DENNIS, d. 20 8m 1757. 3. MARTHA DENNIS, b. ca. 1752; d. Solebury Township, Bucks County, 27 June 1824, ae. 72; m. at Buckingham Monthly Meeting 11 10 m 1775, JAMES ARMITAGE, b. 27 1m 1749; d. 6 7m 1816, in Solebury, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Armitage. 4. JOHN DENNIS (2nd), in 1782 living in New York, having "married a Woman not of our Society by Assistance of an Hireling Minister," which he acknowledged in 1786 to the Buckingham Meeting. 5. HANNAH DENNIS, d. between 1792, when a son Charles was born, and 1796, by which time her husband had m. a 2nd wife; m. at Buckingham Meeting 11 5m 1791, OLIVER HAMPTON, b. ca. 1761; d. in Solebury 13 October 1826, ae. 65, son of Benjamin Hampton.

v. ESTHER LYNN, b. 19 February 1724; d. testate between 25 7m and 7 October 1795; m. 1st at Christ Church 11 October 1745, PETER BANKSON, b. 1710; d. 10 9m 1766, ae. 56. Esther was condemned by the Philadelphia Meeting for marrying out of unity, but may have made satisfactory acknowledgement; her children's deaths were entered in Friends' records. Her husband, a non-communicant member of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Wicacoa (Gloria Dei, Old Swedes'), was a grandson of Andrew Bengston and his wife Gertrude Rambo. In 1754 he was reported in the Church Census made that year as understanding, speaking, reading and writing English, which not all of the Swedish members of the church could do. He was also a ship-carpenter and, having inherited property in Passayunk, relinquished most of the rights he and his wife had in the property devised to her by her father Joseph Lynn. When Peter Bankson died in 1766, he and his family were living in the house on the west side of Front Street near the old ropewalk above Vine, which was all they had kept of his wife's inheritance. He left this to his wife, as well as the principal sum of £400 he had lent to his brother-in-law, Henry Dennis, his silver tankard, bowl, four silver table spoons, six silver tea spoons, sugar tongs, tea strainer, cream pot and salts, and other household furnishings. His wife was to have, in addition, two acres of woodland, part of his Passayunk plantation, the balance of which he devised to his daughter "Elionar." Eleanor was to have additional pieces of silver: his pint can, silver buttons, a pair of sugar tongs, two tablespoons, and a pari of gold sleeve buttons. Issue (order uncertain): 1. MARTHA BANKSON, d. 3 8m 1745. 2. JOHN BANKSON, d. young 3 8m 1751. 3. JOSEPH BANKSON, d. young 13 8m 1751. 4. JACOB BANKSON, b. before 1754; d. 11 3m 1755. 5. ANDREW BANKSON, d. young 6 7m 1759. 6. ELEANOR BANKSON, d. before 3 January 1790; m. at Christ Church 16 April 1777, JOHN RIGHTER, b. 26 January 1753; d. testate in Roxborough Township 6 February 1790, ae. 37-0-10, bur. old Roxborough Burial Ground, son of Peter Righter.

Esther (Lynn) Bankson m. 2nd at Christ Church 29 December 1767, JAMES CHANNEL, a widower. His first wife, Rebecca Keys, had died only the previous March, leaving him with a son Thomas and a daughter Rebecca. He was another shipwright and, after his marriage to Esther, they appear to have lived above Sassafras on the north side of Keys Alley, laid out from Front to Second along the south line of the lot Joseph Lynn purchased in 1737. Esther was disowned by Friends as a result of her second marriage to a non-Friend. By 1780, James Channel appears to have retired from active work since in that year, he was assessed, like John Lynn, as a "gentleman." But four years later, when he wrote his will, he still described himself as a shipwright, being then "advanced in years." It would appear he had been quite prosperous during his active years; he bequeathed to his wife Esther not only his silver watch and "all the Plate and Household Goods which she brought to me at our Marriage," but the principal sum of three bonds totalling £200 and a life tenure in the house in Keys Alley. To his daughter Rebecca, now married to George Pickering, he left a lot in Camden, New Jersey, and the principal sum of a £300 bond. If his son Thomas "who sent to sea and is supposed lost should be alive and return to Philadelphia," he was to have one half of the estate. The will was not proved until eleven years later on 5 February 1795. Esther, his widow, drew up her own will the following July, being then "sick and weak in Body." To her step-daughter Rebecca Pickering she left £10. To her brother Joseph Lynn she left a life estate in the lot between the east side of Cable Lane and Front Street which had been her share of her father's estate. To her niece Esther Lynn, Joseph's daughter, she left her silver pint bowl. The rest of her estate she devised to her only grandchild Esther Righter; if she died without heirs, the estate was to go to Esther Channel's "right heirs." The will was proved 7 October 1795, by her executors, her neighbor William Brooks, a sawsetter, and Thomas Norton, a merchant of the Northern Liberties.

vi. SUSANNA LYNN, b. 20 September 1725; d. in infancy.

vii. SUSANNA LYNN (2nd), b. 18 December 1726; d. in infancy.

viii. SETH LYNN, b. 29 September 1727; d. 27 November 1727.

Less than a year after the death of his first wife Martha Hill, 4. Joseph Lynn married a widow as his second wife, by New Jersey license dated 26 May 1737. Born in 1707, SARAH (HUTCHINSON) NORWOOD promptly presented Joseph with another son within a year of their marriage, and two more daughters within the next two years. In 1740, the year in which the last daughter was born, Joseph took a one-quarter share in the 40-ton Sloop Joseph and Mary, and with Joseph Oldman, James Parrock and Jeremiah Elfreth, his half-brother, bought a large tract of land at the mouth of the Frankford Creek in Shackamaxon, now called Point-no-Point. Mariners and river-men had given this name to the land because of the changes in the appearance of the land at the mouth of the creek as it was approached from down-river. When first seen, it appeared to be a point jutting out into the river but, coming nearer, the point seemed to disappear. Then, on a closer approach, it seemed to jut out again, and so gave rise to the popular jingle,

Point Look Out

Point Look in

Point no Point

Point Agin.

Joseph Lynn had also added to his city holdings. Two months after his marriage he bought another Front Street lot, this one between Sassafras and Vine, at the northwest corner of Front Street and Keys Alley, laid out through to Second Street. The following September he had applied for and been granted "Liberty to Make up so much Ground between the North End of the City as may accommodate him to lay Timber & plank." In December, on his further application, the Proprietor, Thomas Penn, "was pleased to allow him the Priviledge of laying his Timber and Planks on the Ground opposite to his dwelling House and to extend Southward so far as the North line of the Lot called the London Companys untill the Propr'y should be pleased to give further Orders therein."

In October 1742, some three months past his fifty-first birthday, Joseph Lynn, being sick and weak in body, drew up his will, having already decided on a division of his real estate among his children. To his three sons, Joseph, John and Jeremiah, he left 170 acres of the property at Point-no-Point. He had agreed with Samuel Parr to sell a portion of it to him, but as he had not yet conveyed it, his executors were to complete the bargain. To his recently married daughter Elizabeth Griffith, wife of Abraham, he left a plantation of 130 acres at Neshaminy, as well as a feather bed and furnishing, a chest of drawers, a table, looking glass and "other necessaries for housekeeping." His other two daughters by his first wife, Martha and Esther, were to have £18 a year paid to them by his wife until the youngest came of age. His eldest son Joseph was to have his wearing apparell, his riding horse and a small silver tankard. John, the second son, was to have his silver bowl. Both were to have a feather bed and furnishings. Jeremiah, his son by his second wife, was to have his gold and silver buttons and buckles. The four children of his first wife were to have his four new silver spoons.

To his second wife Sarah, he devised his large silver tankard, seven old silver spoons, tongs, strainer and the rest of his silver; a mare and cow, his riding chair, and his Negro girl. Sarah was also to enjoy for her life the income of the two houses on Second Street on the lot he had purchased in 1734, now occupied by tenants; the income arising out of the bank lot between Mulberry and Sassafras Streets, which he had sold on ground rent in 1737 to Simon and Stephen Beezeley, and that issuing out of the one lot on the south side of Sassafras which he had sold on ground rent to John Price. After her death, these rents were to be divided among his daughters.

Having disposed of his personal estate, he next took thought for his business. The two sloops then on the stocks, the "large new Flat," and his three servants were to be sold, and the money arising from their sale applied to his debts. If this was not sufficient, then a lot in Bristol in Bucks County and one at Whitehill near Bordentown in West Jersey, were also to be sold. Out of the proceeds of these sales, his two sons Joseph and John were to take what was due them "for work and money I borrowed of them." Half of the amount was to be in cash, the other half in material. He appointed his wife and two eldest sons executors, and named his friend Thomas Leech to assist them. Seemingly as an afterthought, he devised £5 to his half-sister 2. Esther Clay.

Two days later, on 12 October 1742, Joseph Lynn died at the age of fifty-one years, three months and twenty-eight days. His will was not proved until the following 4 November by the witnesses, his half-brother Jeremiah Elfreth, Samuel Hastings, and Christopher Marshall; Thomas Leech was the only one of the four who was a "juror," the others all affirmed, being Friends.

The executors' first act was to have the heretofore undivided Point-no-Point tract split up into appropriate shares. Then in July 1743, they sold 159 acres at the mouth of Frankford Creek to William Logan for £393 14s. and, a month later, 79 additional acres to Samuel Parr, as directed by Lynn in his will.

No division of the city property could be made until after the widow Sarah Lynn's death, since she was entitled to the income during her life. She survived Joseph seventeen years, dying 4 June 1759, aged fifty-two years, eleven months and twenty-eight days. Her younger daughter Hannah died in January of the following year, but it was not until 1761 that the ground rents and lots were parcelled out among Joseph's three surviving daughters, Martha Dennis, Hester Bankson, and their half-sister Sarah Lynn.

Issue of 4. Joseph Lynn by his 2nd wife Sarah (Hutchinson) Norwood:

ix. JEREMIAH LYNN, b. 22 February 1738; bur. 5 2m 1804, ae. 66, unmarried and without issue. After his mother's death, Jeremiah in 1760 disposed of his share of the Point-no-Point land to Abel James. His sister Hannah's share in the city property became vested in him and in his sister Sarah; after the initial partition, they made a separate division between them of their joint holdings. A shipwright by trade, he appears to have lived most of his adult life with his only surviving sister of the whole blood, Sarah, and her husband Benjamin Marshall.

x. SARAH LYNN, b. 8 October 1739; d. 7 May 1797; m. at Philadelphia Meeting 22 10m 1761, BENJAMIN MARSHALL, b. 14 8m 1737; d. 29 January 1778, bur. at Plymouth Meeting Burial Ground, son of Christopher Marshall, the diarist, and his 1st wife, Sarah Thompson. Though he was a "tinn-plate worker" by trade, Benjamin Marshall appears to have participated with his brothers in the family business, a drug and colour shop: the Sign of the Golden Ball in Chestnut Street. When the British approached Philadelphia in 1777, Benjamin and his brothers and their families moved out of the city up into the country. During the winter, while nursing soldiers at Valley Forge and at his own home, he contracted a fever from which he died. When his widow finally moved back to Philadelphia, her brother Jeremiah Lynn apparently took up residence with her. Issue: 1. ANN MARSHALL, b. 10 August 1762; d. young. 2. SARAH MARSHALL, b. 10 December 1763; d. 23 2m 1765, ae. 15 months. 3. HANNAH MARSHALL, b. 5 December 1765; m. at the Philadelphia Meeting 14 4m 1785, CASPAR WISTAR HAINES, b. 1762; d. 1801, son of Reuben Haines and his wife Margaret Wistar. 4. SARAH MARSHALL (2nd), b. 1767; bur. 2 11m 1775, ae. 8. 5. MARY MARSHALL, b. 22 July 1769; d. 17 3m 1770, ae. 8 months. 6. SUSANNA MARSHALL, b. 12 July 1771; bur 27 7m 1772, ae. 1. 7. CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, b. 10 May 1773; m. 1st at Philadelphia Meeting 9 10m 1800, MARY DORSEY, b. 12 8m 1772, daughter of Benedict and Sarah Dorsey; m. 2nd, PHOEBE SHOTWELL. 8. ESTHER MARSHALL, b. 22 November 1774; m. at High Street Meeting House 3 12m 1795, ABRAHAM GARRIGUES, b. 7 8m 1773, son of William and Mary Garrigues. 9. MARY MARSHALL (2nd), b. 17 July 1776; d. young. 10. ANN MARSHALL (2nd, twin of Mary?), b. July 1776, bur. 7 9m 1776, ae. 3 months. 11. BENJAMIN MARSHALL, b. 29 September 1777; m. at Philadelphia Meeting House 11 10m 1804, MARY CRUKSHANK, daughter of John and Mary Crukshank. 12. ANN MARSHALL (3rd), b. 18 June 1778; d. young.

xi. HANNAH LYNN, b. 8 August 1741; d. testate unmarried and without issue in Philadelphia 11 January 1760, ae. 18-4-22. In her will, written ten days before her death when she was "very sick and weak," she bequeathed all her plate, lands and hereditaments to her brother Jeremiah and sister Sarah Lynn, to be shared by them equally. Sarah was also to have her Negro girl called "Bett."

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 0 FLOWERS 1 JOSEPH LYNN, posthumous son of Esther King and her second husband, Joseph Lynn, was born in Philadelphia 14 June 1691. He was not quite nineteen when his mother died in 1710, and he may have been apprenticed to his half-brother, the shipwright John Bowyer, Jr., who was twenty years his senior. When he married MARTHA HILL on 25 December 1712, he was six months past his twenty-first birthday.

Less than a year after the death of his first wife Martha Hill, 4. Joseph Lynn married a widow as his second wife, by New Jersey license dated 26 May 1737. Born in 1707, SARAH (HUTCHINSON) NORWOOD promptly presented Joseph with another son within a year of their marriage, and two more daughters within the next two years. In 1740, the year in which the last daughter was born, Joseph took a one-quarter share in the 40-ton Sloop Joseph and Mary, and with Joseph Oldman, James Parrock and Jeremiah Elfreth, his half-brother, bought a large tract of land at the mouth of the Frankford Creek in Shackamaxon, now called Point-no-Point. Mariners and river-men had given this name to the land because of the changes in the appearance of the land at the mouth of the creek as it was approached from down-river. When first seen, it appeared to be a point jutting out into the river but, coming nearer, the point seemed to disappear.

- From the article "Esther KING of Philadelphia & Bucks Counties and her Bowyer, Lynn and Elfreth Children" by Dorothee Hughes Carousso (Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 1966, Vol. 24, No. 4):

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