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- Another form of the name was Getchell
"Although Jeremiah Gatchell received from his parents a ten acre lot on the Salem River in 1680, and similar property in 1684 and 1692, he was a wheelwright by trade and, perhaps at the suggestion of Grimstone Boude, his evident brother-in law, he moved to the busy port city on the Delaware. In 1704 power of attorney he calls himself 'late of ye County of Essex in ye Collony of ye Massachusetts in New Engd. but now of ye City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pensilvania.' On 23 October, 1713, Jeremiah Gatchell 'the Elder of Philadelphia, wheelwright' conveyed the three ten acre lots in Marblehead received from his parents to Jeremiah Gatchell, junior, 'of Marblehead but now in Philadelphia,' who had already held them under lease, the consideration being love and affection and the yearly rent of 6 pounds to his father as well as a provision that within a year of the grantor's death the grantee would pay 100 pounds to Joseph Gatchell and Dorothy Gatchell or, if they be dead, to Sarah and Lydia Gatchell, his brother and sisters. Jeremiah, Joseph, and Dorothy remained in their native town (and their brother Increase in Boston). Elisha, Sarah and Lydia, who were settled in Philadelphia, on the same day quitclaimed their interest in the Marblehead real estate to their brother Jeremiah. It was not until 1724, however, after their father's death, that the two remaining children, Increase and Dorothy, sold their interest to the younger Jeremiah.
"The last years of Jeremiah Gatchell in Philadelphia must have been comfortable for, at some time between 1714 and his death in 1720, he married a second wife, the rich widow Katherine ( ___) (Moll) Conyhane. In her first marriage this lady had been the second wife and inheritor of one-third of an estate of 1578/2/8 left in 1701 by John Moll..." -- "Grimstone Boude and his family"
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Taylor Family Genealogy
Abt 1648 - 