Dorothy (Poole) Cartmell (abt. 1666 - 1750)

Born about 1666 in Ireland [uncertain]

Wife of Nathaniel Cartmell Sr. — married about 1683 in Ireland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1 Nov 1750 at about age 84 in Opechonian, Frederick, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Dorothy (Poole) Cartmell was a Virginia colonist.

Dorothy was born about 1666,^[1] probably in Ireland. It is not certain she is the daughter of William Poole and Ann Parkham Smith. She may have been added to the wrong parents. See Research Notes below.

Nathaniel, wife Dorothy and son Martin were Quakers who came from Ireland in 1685 and settled "within the limits of Newark Montly Meeting" in the Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County in what was then Pennsylvania. In 1689-90 Nathaniel Cartmill and Timothy Atkinson were each granted 200 acres of land in the "Manor of Rockland, New Castle County, at a rent of one penny per acre, 'being unwilling such good Husbandman should leave the Government.'" Nathaniel's son Thomas was officially disowned in 1715 for marriage out of Society.^[2]

Nathaniel is called "brother" in the will of William Pool on 21 May 1698 in New Castle and named as Executor. William lived next door to Nathaniel on the 1696 New Castle County, Tax List. He may have been the brother of Nathaniel's wife Dorothy Poole.^[3]

On 28 May 1739 Dorothy Cartmell gave a deposition in which she stated she was about 73 years old (born about 1666). Dorothy was a midwife and deposed that on 1 September 1704 she had delivered a son called Charles Emerson to one Mary Emerson, relict of "Cornelius Emerson of New Castle County upon Delaware at a place called Gold Plains in the Povince of Pennsylvania."^[1]

Marriage & Children

Dorothy married Nathaniel Cartmell about 1683, probably in Ireland. Known children include:

1. Martin Cartmill, b 19 Mar 1685, at sea on voyage from Ireland to Pennsylvania
2. Thomas Cartmill, b 29 April 1689, Pennsylvania
3. Nathaniel Cartmill, 1700-1759 New Castle, Pennsylvania/Delaware
4. Sarah Cartmell, b 1702, Virginia

Some research needs to be done to determine with more accuracy the birthdates of Nathaniel, Jr., and Sarah Cartmell. No record has yet been found for Nathaniel Cartmell, Sr., in Delaware after 1698. The gap between the birth of Thomas in 1689 and that of Nathaniel, Jr., in 1700 (11 years) appears too large. It seems more likely they were born about 1690-92.

Death & Legacy

Dorothy Cartmell moved with her children to Frederick County, Virginia, about 1735 and died there in 1750.

Abstract of 1750 WILL

Dorothy Cartmell's will (1670-1750), written 20 Apr 1749, proved 14 Nov 1750

Frederick County, VA Will Book 1, Page 412, proved 14 Nov 1750.

Legacies to son Thomas Cartmell and daughter Sarah Chester.

Son-in-law Thomas Chester.

Grandsons Nathaniel, Nathan and Edward Cartmell (sons of Martin Cartmell and Esther).

Grandsons Joseph, Thomas and William Cartmell and granddaughters Sarah and Hannah Cartmell (children of Thomas Cartmell and Dinah Taylor).

Grandsons Thomas and David Chester and granddaughters Mary and Susanna Chester (children of Thomas Chester and Sarah Cartmell). Granddaughter Elizabeth Smith (married daughter of Thomas Chester and Sarah Cartmell).

Grandson Thomas Smith and granddaughters Lydia, Mary and Sarah Smith (children of unnamed daughter married to a Smith).

Also named, Catherine Hiland (no relationship stated, Hylands were neighbors).

Executor: Grandson Edward Cartmell (son of Martin Cartmell).

Witnesses: Samuel Merrifield, Joseph Glass and Robert Glass.

Transcript posted on Cartmell Forum on 4 April 2002 by Donald Sticher:^[4]

I Dorothy Cartmell of Opeckan in Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia Widow being weak of body but of Perfect Sound mind and memory.Thanks be given to God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body do make and ordain this my last will and testamentthat is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it. And my body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give devise & dispose of the same in the following manner and form.

• Imprimis my will and mind is that all my just debts and funeral charges be first paid and discharged.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Cartmell the sum of Five Pounds Pensilvania money to be paid to him within twelve months after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my son in law Thomas Chester a Bond which I have against him therefore my will and mind is that my Executor deliver to him the bond, also I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Chester the sum of Five pounds pensa. Money to be paid within twelve months after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath to my Grand son Nathaniel Cartmell the sum of ten Shillings pensa. money to be paid within twelve months after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath to my Grand son Nathan Cartmell the sum of Five pounds penselvania money to be paid within twelve months after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Thomas Smith the sum of three pounds pensa. money to be paid within 12 mos. after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand Daughters Lydia & Mary Smith my side saddle betwixt them. Also I give unto my three Grand Daughters Lydia, Mary and Sarah Smith three of the largest of my pewter dishes each of them one.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Mary and Susanna Chester the sum of one pound ten Shillings each pensa. money to be paid to them within twelve months after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Smith all my wearing cloaths both linen and woollen and my warming pan.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand sons Thomas & David Chester Five shillings each pensa. money to be paid as above said.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand sons Joseph, Thomas & William Cartmell the sum of Five Shillings each pensa. money to be pd. as above sd.
• Item I give and bequeath unto Catherine Hiland the sum of five shillings Sterling to be paid within twelve months after my decease.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my two Grand Daughters Sarah & Hannah Cartmell to the value of a pistole each of them to be paid within twelve months after my decease.
• My will and mind is that the persons above mentioned that hath money left by me my mind is that my Executor let them have some thing of my House hold goods to the value of what is left them if they chuse it rather than the money.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand son Edward Cartmell my Negro woman Peghe to have and to keep her the term of Five years after my decease but my will and mind is that my Grand son Edward set the Negro woman Peg free at the expiration of the five years aforesd. Also I give and bequeath unto my Grand son Edward Cartmell a negro boy called Jo to him the said and his heirs and assigns forever.
• Item I give and bequeath unto my Grand son Edward Cartmell all and Singular my Good Chattles monies and Credits Except what is above excepted.
• Lastly I nominate and appoint my Grandson Edward Cartmell my Executor of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking annuling & utterly making void all former and other Wills by me heretofore made. In witness where of I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the twentieth day of April In the year of Our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred Forty Nine (1749)

Published and declared To be her Last will and Testament in The presence of Samuel Merrifield, Joseph Glass,Robert Glass

Her Mark, Dorothy (DC) Cartmell

At a Court continued and held for Frederick County on Wednesday the 14th day of November 1750.

This will of Dorothy Cartmell deced. was proved in open Court by the oaths of Samuel Merrifield Joseph Glass and Robt. Glass witnesses thereto and Edward Cartmell the Executor having made oath to the same according to Law it was admited to Record. Teste J Wood CC

Research Notes

Most online family trees add Dorothy Poole as daughter of William Pettypoole (christened 20 Oct 1630, Middlesex, England)^[5] and his wife Ann Smith. William Pettypoole emigrated to the Virginia Colony as an indentured servant in the mid 1650s, possibly about 1654. He was bound to John Davis who claimed headright for his transport. William was released from his term of indenture in about 1660/61 and then married Ann Smith, another indentured servant of John Davis. Available records indicate only one child was born to William and Ann Pettypoole, son William born about 1662/3. In 1665 William and Ann Pettipool demanded headright for themselves and son William in Talbott County for immigrating to Maryland. In 1668 Ann Pettypoole filed a civil suit in Baltimore, Maryland. This would seem to indicate she was a widow, since a married woman was not allowed to file suit in her own name. For more information, sources and an interesting biography of William Pettypool, "The Tobacco Rustler," see William Pettypool.

Dorothy Poole was a Quaker who emigrated with her husband from Ireland to Virginia Colony in 1685. There is no way she could have been the daughter of William Pettypoole. She may have been the daughter of a William Poole, but not the one she is attached to. Or the birth & death dates for this William Poole and his wife Ann Smith need to be researched and corrected.

Also one must note, William Pettypoole never shortened his name to "Pool/Poole." In all records found, his name is "Pettypoole/Pettipoole" or some variant thereof.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Delaware Public Archives; Delaware Land Records; Roll Number: 5, page 234. Ancestry.com. Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Ancestry Image
2. ↑ Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750: with their early history in Ireland. Swarthmore, Pa.: Albert Myers, 1902. Page 325
3. ↑ Cartmill Genealogy, Nathaniel Cartmell
4. ↑ Dorothy Cartmell's Will
5. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3CP-5LR : 19 September 2020), William Petipoole, 1630.

Acknowledgements

• Poole-1428 was created by Kitty Chandler through the import of fugitbelfield.ged on May 12, 2014.