ANCI: Essex County, VirginiaCaroline County, Virginia
Source, History of Acker-Albert Family, p 13: Joel was a Welsh immigrant and came to Virginia about 1730. He and his wife settled in Caroline County, Virginia, and evidently were close neighbors and goods friends of William Hill, Sr., and his wife, Susannah Smithers, judging from the intermarriages between the two families.
Joel is Administrator of the estate of William Halbert (Essex County Will Book 5, p 175, supposedly his brother. The WIlliam Halbert whose estate was probated in Essex County in 1761 was probably son of William, nephew of Joel
