Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
Deen, Fordice, Hallett, Hodges and Van Horn Families - Person Sheet
NameJoseph Gorby
Birthabt 1725, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania
Death1770, Claymont, Province of Delaware
FatherSamuel Gorby (~1700->1778)
MotherMary May (~1708-1799)
Notes for Joseph Gorby
He married Maria Littlejohn in Old Swede's Church Creek. Her son, also named Erasmus Stedham, was not mentioned in his father's will. In the 1750s, after she married Joseph Gorby and after her daughters were both married, Joseph and Mary purchased the daughters' share of the properties.
From 1755 to 1764 there are records of four deeds where Joseph and Mary sold approximately 600 acres of this property. On two of the deeds, the ownership of the property is traced back to the original land grant warrants. These records are in the Delaware Archives, New Castle County Deeds:
Joseph Gorby + wife Mary to William Forwood the Elder, 1755, Vol S-1, pg 80-81. Joseph Gorbey + wife Mary to James Houston, 1757, Vol T-1, pg 331-333. Joseph Gorby + wife Mary to James Huston, 1762, Vol U-1, pg 210-211. Joseph Gorby + wife Mary to James Huston, 1764, Vol W-1, pg 585-586. Joseph Gorby was born about 1725 in Chester Co, PA, married first Mary Loan on February 26, 1745, and second Hannah Stilley on December 20, 1770. Records of both marriages are found in Holy Trinity Church in Wilmington, DE, pages 392 and 733 of the marriage records.
In 1774 we find Joseph on the tax list of Bethel, Chester Co, PA, and on June 3, 1795 he purchased from the Government 400 acres if land in Washington Co, PA, which he sold on the day of the survey to his nephew Job Gorby. But during this time he must have been living near Claymont, DE, for the descendants of Joseph claim that both Mary Loan and Hannah Stilley lived in the old home there which he built after leaving Chester Co, PA.
From 1755 to 1764 there are records of four deeds where Joseph and Mary sold approximately 600 acres of this property. On two of the deeds, the ownership of the property is traced back to the original land grant warrants. These records are in the Delaware Archives, New Castle County Deeds:
Joseph Gorby + wife Mary to William Forwood the Elder, 1755, Vol S-1, pg 80-81. Joseph Gorbey + wife Mary to James Houston, 1757, Vol T-1, pg 331-333. Joseph Gorby + wife Mary to James Huston, 1762, Vol U-1, pg 210-211. Joseph Gorby + wife Mary to James Huston, 1764, Vol W-1, pg 585-586. Joseph Gorby was born about 1725 in Chester Co, PA, married first Mary Loan on February 26, 1745, and second Hannah Stilley on December 20, 1770. Records of both marriages are found in Holy Trinity Church in Wilmington, DE, pages 392 and 733 of the marriage records.
In 1774 we find Joseph on the tax list of Bethel, Chester Co, PA, and on June 3, 1795 he purchased from the Government 400 acres if land in Washington Co, PA, which he sold on the day of the survey to his nephew Job Gorby. But during this time he must have been living near Claymont, DE, for the descendants of Joseph claim that both Mary Loan and Hannah Stilley lived in the old home there which he built after leaving Chester Co, PA.