Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 : with their early history in Ireland

Joseph Pike born 11 Mo. 15, 1657 on a farm called Kilcreagh, seven miles west of Cork. He was the son of Richard Pike and Elizabeth Jackson.  Richard Pike was born about 1627 in the town of Newberry, Berkshire, England of parents of good repuations “and having some estate in houses there” and about 1648 he “came over to Ireland a Corporal in a Troop of Horse in Cromwell’s Army.”  He married Elizabeth jackson, born in London about 1636, parents of good repute. (more on documents below)

By patent dated December 3, 1705, William Penn granted to Joseph Pike, a wealthy Quaker merchant, of Cork, a tract of over 10,000 acres of land, lying north of the Great Valley, which was organized under the name of Pikeland Township and in 18138 divided into East and West Pikeland.  Joseph Pike died in 1729 and by his will, dated 1727 and proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Armagh, devised Pikeland and a tract of over 1,5000 acres in Caln, on the southern part of which is no Caln Meeting House,