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Arbuckle's Row in Early Northern Liberties

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  • James Arbuckle (1690 - 1761)
    JAMES ARBUCKLE James Arbuckle , here treated, is said to have been born in Pennsylvania in about 1690 and to have died in February 1761, at No Liberties Twp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Colonial Americ...

As a part of the Northern Liberties, Arbuckle's Row was a commercial location, as mentioned in the following.

Arbuckle's Row is mentioned in:

~• note: The name <Arbuckle> appears frequently in advet's in period newpapers of Philadelphia. > see newspapers.com and search in the 1840s. (seen in The Public Ledger)

Much earlier, there was an Arbuckle's Row, a neighborhood in 1788 Philadelphia: see Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser
11 Jul 1788, Fri ·Page 4

This neighborhood was probably in the Borough of Frankford in Philadelphia , as we read in the hyperlink. = "Other significant persons: Daniel T. Arbuckle (1813-1891)"

Will of James Arbuckle

  • PA - ARBUCKLE, JAMES. Northern Liberties, Co. of Philadelphia. Shop keeper. December 12, 1760.March 10, 1761. M.61.
  • Wife: Rachel.
  • Children: Grace [wife of JonathanThomas],
  • Hannah [wife of Jno. Vanhorn],
  • Thomas Hilborne and Mary Paul [first wife's children].
  • Exec: Said sons-in-law.
  • Wit: Thomas Barton,Samuel Noble, Paul Isaac Voto.
  • 2nd ? Wife Rachel Livesey was wife of Evan Thomas before James

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