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Joseph Kirkbride

An early Quaker settler in Pennsylvania, he appears in historical records more as a community figure than as a conventional literary author. His name is closely tied to colonial Philadelphia-area history and to a family line that later included notable Quaker ministers.

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Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes

Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes

by Joseph Kirkbride

About the author

Joseph Kirkbride was an early Quaker associated with Pennsylvania's colonial history. Available sources connect him to the first generation of Quaker settlement, and later references describe him as one of the original settlers in Pennsylvania in 1682.

He also appears in records tied to Philadelphia-area place history. Accounts of Bridesburg, Philadelphia, say the area was first called Kirkbridesburg after Joseph Kirkbride, who operated a ferry to New Jersey and later built a toll bridge over Frankford Creek.

Reliable biographical detail about him as an author is limited in the sources I could confirm. What does come through clearly is his place in early American Quaker life and the lasting mark of the Kirkbride family in Pennsylvania history.