Identifying the Parents of Charles Dry

 I started my genealogy research in 1976 by inter-mingling, studying and net-working with genealogist and library employees at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and anyone else willing to teach me the teckniques for successful research. Every opportunity I could manage were spent at the Library for the next 24 years at which time I relocated to North Carolina. In the past 21 years I have made annual trips to visit my son and to do research at the Library 15 of the 21 years since leaving Utah. I am now in my 45th year of genealogical research.

My 5th Great Grandfather is Charles Dry, borne abt 1730 in Pennsylvania. He married Christina Muss about 1756 in Pennsylvania and migrated to Mecklenburg County, NC about 1777 (see Deed Book 7, page 297, Mecklenburg County, NC).

My research shows that the parents of Carll Lodewick Derr (Anglicized to Charles Dry) are Johan Martin Derr and Maria Gertraut Echard.

There are many Dry researchers who disagree with my conclusions and maintained that Johan Georg Dry and his wife Margaretha Clara Augenstein are the parents of Charles.

I hope this land deed puts all those doubts asunder.   

Transcription: 

Deed Gertrout Derr & Ors to Isaak Summony ¹
 
This indenture made the twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & sixty three Between Gertrout Derr the widow & Relict of Martin Derr late of Marlborough Township and County and County of Philadelphia Yeoman, deceased and Lorentz Derr of Berks County of Long Swamp Township Yeoman with Mary Engle his wife [Philip Smith of Richland Township of Berks County Blacksmith with Catherine his wife; [Henry Keple of Marlborough Township Yeoman with Elizabeth his wife [Carll Lodewick Derr of Marlborough Township Yeoman, with Christina his wife [John Martin Derr of Salisbury Township and County of Northhampton Wheelwright with Anna Ursula his wife [Jacob Dettwiller of Upper hanover Township and County of Philadelphia Yeoman with Margaretha his wife heirs of the said Martin Derr deceased of the one part and Issak Summony of Marlbrough Township and County of Philadelphia Innkeeper of the other part Witnesseth that the said Gertrout Derr, Lorentz Derr with Mary Engle his wife Philip Smith with Catherine his wife Henry Keple with Elizabeth his wife Carll Lodewick Derr with Christina his wife John Martin Derr with Ursula his wife Jacob Detweiller with Margaretha his wife for and in consideration of seven hundred and seventy four pounds correct & lawful Money of the providence of Pennsylvania to them the sayd Gertrout Derr Lorentz Derr & Mary Engle his wife Philip Smith with Catherine his wife (Henry Keple and Elizabeth his wife) Carll Lodewick Derr with Christina his wife John Martin Derr and Anna Ursula his wife Jacob Detweiller & Margaretha his wife will & truly in hand paid by the said Isaack Summony The Receipt whereof is hereby (pg 538) acknowledged and he the sayd Isaack Summony his Heirs & Assigns there from forever Discharged by these presents have granted bargained sold alliened Transferred released and confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell alien enfeoff transfer release & confirm unto the said Isaak Summony and to his Heirs and assigns two certain pieces Plantation or Trackts <sic> of Land situated lying & being in Marlbrough Township and County of Philadelphia aforesaid one of them Beginning at a marked Black Oak in a Line of Lodowick Shaffers Land thence by the same North West ten perches to a post and South West to a post Thence by vacant Land North West One hundred & thirty seven perched to a post North East One hundred and Fifty one perches to a Post & South east One hundred and forty seven perches to a post Thence by vacant Land and Land of Henry Entt South West One hundred &forty one perches to the place of Beginning containing One hundreds & thirty Acres and the usual Allowance of six pro cent for Roads & HighWays/The other Trakt <sic> Beginning at a post a corner of Martin Derrs other Land Thence by the sayd Land South West One hundred & sixteen perches to a post Thence by Vacant land North West thirty seven perches to a post Thence Northeast One hundred & sixteen perches to a post and South East thirty seven perches to the place of Beginning Containing Twenty five Acres and the usuall Allowance of Six Acres per Cent for Roads & HighWays It being the sayd two Trackts of Land which Thomas Penn & Richard Penn true and absolute proprietors & Governors in Chieff of the province of Pennsylvania Counties of Newcastle Kent & Sussex on Delaware by their Patent bearing Date the seventeenth Day of July Anno Domino 1761 for the consideration therein mentioned under the Hands of the honorable James Hamilton Esq. their Lieutenant Governor for the time being & proprietaries Commissionary in that Behalf duly Constituted & the Gratt <sic> Seal of thes'd province did for them the said proprietaries  their heirs& Successors give grant release & confirm unto the said Martin Derr his heirs & Assigns Under the yearly Quit Rent of One half penny Sterling for every Acres of the same. On Value thereof in Coin current according as the Exchange shall then be between our said province & the City of London. As in & by the sayd pattent Recorded in Philadelphia in Pattent Book A. V. 2page 341 may more fully & at large appear together also with all and singular the Buildings Improvements Ways Watters Water Courses Woods underwoods Timber & Trees Rights Liberties privileges hereditament & Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any appertaining And the Reversions &Reminders (pg 539) Rents Issues & Profits thereof and all the Estate Rights  Title Interest use possession  property claim & demand of in and to the above described two Tracts of land or any part or parcell thereof To have and to hold the said above described Two Trakts of Land in the whole One hundred and fifty five Acres & the usuall allowance above sayd unto the sayd Isaak Summony his Heirs & Assigns To the only proper use & Behoof of him the sayd Isaak Summony his Heirs & Assigns for Ever under the yearly Quit rent hereafter accruing for the hereby granted Premises to the Chieff Lord or Lords of the Fee thereof and the sayd Gertrout Derr (Lorentz Derr & Mary Engle his wife (Phillip Smith & Catherine his wife Henry Keple & Elizabeth his wife (Carll Lodewick Derr & Christina his wife John Martin Derr and Ursula his wife (Jacob Detwiller & Margareta his Wife for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators doth hereby covenant promise & grant to and with the sayd Isaac Summony his Heirs & Assigns by these presents That they the said Gertrout (Lorentz Derr & Mary Engle his wife (Phillip Smith & Catherine his wife Henry Keple & Elizabeth his wife (Carll Lodewick Derr &Christina his wife John Martin Derr and Anna Ursula his wife (Jacob Detwiller& Margareta his Wife(and their & every of their heirs the above described two Trakts of One hundred and fifty five Acres of Land with the Allowamnce Hereditaments & Premises thereby granted or mentioned so to be with the Appurtenances unto the sayd Isaak Summony his Heirs & Assigns against them the sayd Gertrout Derr and against the said Lorenetz Derr & Mary Engle his wife (Phillip Smith & Catherine his wife & Henry Keple and Elizabeth his wife/Carll Lodwick Derr & Christina his wife John Martin Derr & Anna Ursula his Wife & Jacob Detweiller & Margareta his Wife and their and every of their Heirs respectively and against all and every other person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming or to claim by from or under him them or any of them shall & will Warrant & for ever Defend by these presents [Excepts in the above mentioned Pattent is except Relating to the Royal Mines and for digging & refunding the same In Witness whereof the sayd parties to these presents have interchangeably sett their Hands & Seals hereunto Datted the day &Year above written Gertrout # her mark Derr (Seal)  Comm B Druu (Seal) Mary & her wife Engle(Seal) [illegible] Seal) Catherina X her mark Smith (Seal) illegible illegible (Seal) Elizabeth x her mark Keple (Seal) illegible illegible (Seal) illegible illegible (Seal) John Martin x his mark Derr (Seal) illegible illegible illegible (Seal) illegible illegible(Seal) Margareta X her mark Dettweiller (Seal) Sealed & delivered in the presents<sic> of us illegible illegible Jogz Teller S. S. be it Remembered That on the second day of September Anno Domini 1763 Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices for the County of (pg 540)  Philadelphia personally appeared the within named Gertrout Derr/ Lorentz Derr & Mary Engle his Wife (Phillip Smith & Catherina his Wife henry Keple & Elizabeth his Wife Carl Lodewich Derr & Christina his Wife / John Martin Derr & Anna Ursula his Wife Jacob Dettwiller & Margareta his (and Acknowledged the within written Indenture to be their Ackt & Deed desiring that it mett be Recorded as such The sayd Gertrout Derr/Mary Engle/Catherina Elizabeth Christina Anna Ursula & Margareta / Thereunto Voluntarily Consenting the being of full Age & apart examined and the Contents of this Writing first made known unto them Witness my Hand & Seal the Day & Datte above written  John Koplin (Seal) S-S. Recorded on the Day of the Datte of the within written Indenture of the within named Isaak Summony the Sum of Seven hundred & seventy four Pound correct Money of Pennsylvania It being the full consideration Money within mentioned we say record per us Gertrout X her mark Derr, [5 illegible names] Martin x his mark Derr, Jacok Detweiller Witness presents at Signing{illegible] Jooz Teller ~~The next above record is illegible according to ye original. C. B.
Recorded ye 23rd January 1764

To those whom still have doubts about the parentage of Charles Dry I submit the following information. The baptism of the two oldest sons of Carl & Christina copied from a narrative on the Family of  Johan Martin Deer and Marie Gertraut.

Old Goshenhoppern Lutheran Family Register, Upper Salford twp., Montgomery co., PA:

Johan Martin Deer, age 60 years, b. 26 Aug. 1691 in Gross Garda near Heilbronn in Wurtemberg (Grossgartach). ... Anno 1717 he married Maria Gertraut, b. 1696... ²

Martin and Gertrout Derr are my 6th Great Grandparents.

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[1] Land Deed - Deed Gertrout Derr & Ors to Isaak Summony; 24 August 1763; Deed Book #H-18; Page(s) Page 537; Register of Deeds; Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; 4 November 2020.

[2] Annette Kunsekman Burgert, Grossgartach, Wuerttemberg, to Pennsylvania:: Some Early Colonial German Immigrants (Myerstown, PA 17067: AKB Publications, 1999), page 16.

[3] https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSFB-YS8M-4?i=274&cat=227024