Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 27

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710

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Jeremiah Emlen, b. 1783, d. 9mo. 1785;

Jeremiah Emlen, d. 1826; unm .;

Sarah Emlen, b. 6mo. 19, 1787, d. 3mo. 28, 1870; m. 6mo. 4, 1807, Caleb, son of Caleb and Sarah (Hopkins) Cresson;

Deborah Emlen, d. 1871; unm .;

JAMES EMLEN (George, George, George), born 6mo. 26, 1760, died Iomo. 3, 1798, of yellow fever ; married, 4mo. 23, 1783, at Concord Meeting, Delaware county, Phebe Peirce, born 12mo. II, 1758, died of yellow fever, Iomo. 25, 1793, daughter of Caleb and Ann (Mendenhall) Peirce.

Caleb Peirce was grandson of George Peirce, who with his wife, Anne (Gainer) Peirce, came from England in 1684, and that same year had surveyed to him a tract of four hundred and ninety acres in Thornbury township, Chester county,

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Pennsylvania. On his arrival he presented two certificates to a meeting of Friends "att the Governor's house", one from "the Monthly Meeting at ffrenshay in the county of Gloucester", and the other from Thornbury in the same county. George Peirce represented Chester county in the Provincial Assembly in 1706 and was very active in the community meetings of Friends. "He was one of a com- pany who erected the Concord Mill, the first mill built in the neighborhood."

James Emlen, after his education was completed, declined to travel abroad, as his parents had intended, preferring to stay with his relative, Hannah, widow of William Miller, of New Garden, Chester county. "He assumed the management of her mill without an assistant and declined compensation, stipulating only that he might grind for some of the poorer customers without taking toll. In this, however, he was careful not to let the left hand know what the right hand did." He removed to Middletown in 1782, where he became owner of consider- able land. Although but about thirty-eight years of age when he died he was an elder in the Meeting and served as clerk, recorder, etc. He was appointed one of the first standing committee to give attention to the condition of the Indian natives, and which committee, by successive re-appointments, has con- tinued to the present time.

Issue of James and Phebe (Peirce) Emlen :-

Anne Emlen, b. 6mo. 9, 1784, d. 1852; m. 7mo. 13, 1802, Judge Walter Franklin, of Lancaster, Pa .;

Joshua Emlen, b. 12mo. 22, 1785; m. Abigail (Smith) widow of William Emlen Howell, and had one child, Phebe, m. James Hillyer ;

Mary Emlen, b. 8mo. 13, 1787, d. 5mo. 12, 1820; m. Iomo. I, 1807, George Newbold, of New York City; merchant, son of Clayton and Mary (Foster) Newbold;

SAMUEL EMLEN, M. D., b. 3mo. 6, 1789, d. 4mo. 17, 1828; m. Beulah S. Valentine; Phebe Emlen, b. 8mo. 30, 1790, d. Iomo. 5, 1826; unm .;

JAMES EMLEN, b. 6mo. 17, 1792, d. 9mo. 20, 1866; m. Sarah (Foulke) Farquhar ;

WILLIAM FISHBOURNE EMLEN (George, George, George, George), born 5mo. 30, 1787, died 2mo. 1, 1866; married at Friends' Meeting House, Mul- berry street, Philadelphia, IImo. 11, 1813, Mary Parker, daughter of Joseph Parker and Elizabeth Hill (Fox) Norris.

One of his immediate family writes of William Fishbourne Emlen: "He had a charming personality and was a delightful companion. He was most kindly, and with a very spiritual turn of thought." He was one of the earliest Presidents of the Philadelphia & Reading R. R.

Issue of William F. and Mary P. (Norris) Emlen :-

George Emlen, b. 9mo. 25, 1814, d. 6mo. 7, 1853; m. 5mo. 6, 1840, Ellen, dau. of John and Hitty (Cox) Markoe. He entered the Univ. Pa. in 1828, where he was a member of the Zelosophic Society, and at graduation in 1831, was valedictorian of class. Studied law and was admitted to Philadelphia bar. Was president of Law Academy of Phila .; secretary Board of Trustees Univ. Pa., 1841-53; president Public School Comptrollers, etc. Issue :

Mary Emlen, b. May 29, 1842; m. June 12, 1869, James Starr. Issue :

James Starr, b. Apr. 6, 1870; m. Oct. 15, 1901, Sarah Logan Wister ; issue : Sarah Logan Starr, b. June 13, 1903;

George Emlen Starr, b. Oct. 23, 1871; m. Nov. 7, 1899, Karoline Nixon Newhall ;

Ellen Markoe Starr, b. May 12, 1873; m. Feb. 9, 1901, Edward Shippen Wat- son Farnum; issue: Edward Shippen Watson Farnum, b. Jan. 26, 1902; James Starr, b. May 26, 1903; Ralf Farnum, b. Jan. I, 1905;

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Lydia Starr, b. May 18, 1876; m. Dec. 12, 1901, Oliver Boyce Judson;

Theodore Ducoing Starr, b. Jan. 14, 1880; m. Feb. 7, 1901, Sarah Carmalt ; issue: Charlotte Churchill Starr, b. April 22, 1902; Theodore Ducoing Starr, b. April 12, 1907; ,

George Emlen, Attorney-at-Law, b. Nov. 27, 1843; d. Nov. 25, 1907; m. April 22, 1874, Helen Rotch, d. July 7, 1900; dau. of Daniel Clarke and Anne (Morgan) Wharton. "Issue :

Anne Wharton Emlen, b. June 15, 1875, d. July 17, 1875;

Ellen Markoe Emlen, b. Jan. 21, 1877, d. Mar. 19, 1900; Dorothea Emlen, b. Feb. 20, 1881 ;

Harry Emlen, b. Mar. 31, 1847, d. Mar. 17, 1871; unm .;

Ellen Emlen, b. Feb. 13, 1850;

Joseph Norris Emlen, b. Sept. 4, 1816, d. unm .;

Elizabeth Norris Emlen, b. Jan. 26, 1825; m. Dec. 22, 1847, James A. Roosevelt, (an uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt), b. June 12, 1825, d. July 15, 1898. Issue : Mary Emlen Roosevelt, b. Sept. 27, 1848, d. Dec. 19, 1885;

Leila Roosevelt, b. Feb. 5, 1850; m. Edward R. Merritt;

Alfred Roosevelt, b. April 2, 1856, d. July 3, 1891; m. Dec. 5, 1882, Katherine, dau. of Augustus Lowell, of Boston, Mass. Issue :

Elfrida Roosevelt, b. Dec. 22, 1883; m. June 9, 1905, Owen B. Clark, of England; issue: Humphrey Owen Clark, b. July 6, 1906;

James Alfred Roosevelt, b. Feb. 23, 1885;

Katherine Lowell Roosevelt, b. April 18, 1887;

William Emlen Roosevelt, b. April 30, 1857; m. Oct. 4, 1883, Christine G. Kean. Issue:

Christine Kean Roosevelt, b. Aug. 3, 1884;

George Emlen Roosevelt, b. Oct. 13, 1887;

Lucie Margaret Roosevelt, b. Nov. 7, 1888;

John Kean Roosevelt, b. Sept. 22, 1889;

Philip James Roosevelt, b. May 15, 1892;

Sarah Emlen, b. June 15, 1832; m. Oct. 15, 1862, James Casey Hale. Issue :

Mary Emlen Hale, b. Aug. 9, 1863; m. Oct. 24, 1883, James Lowell Jr., of Boston, Mass. Issue :

Mary Emlen Lowell, b. July 31, 1884; m. Oct. 15, 1904, Francis Vernon Lloyd ;

John Lowell, b. March 21, 1887;

William Emlen Lowell, b. Oct. 25, 1888, d. July 28, 1889;

Ralph Lowell, b. July 23, 1890;

James Hale Lowell, b. May 3, 1892;

Olivia Lowell, b. Aug. 2, 1898.

SAMUEL EMLEN, M. D. (James, George, George, George), born 3mo. 6, 1789, died 4mo. 17, 1828; married, IImo. 4, 1819, Beulah Sansom, daughter of Jacob Valentine, of New York, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Col. Benjamin George Eyre.

Although Dr. Samuel Emlen died in the prime of life, he was one of the most eminent physicians of his day. He studied under Dr. Parrish, of Phila- delphia ; graduated, and in June, 1812, sailed for England. After a stay of over two years abroad, during which time he continued his studies, he returned to this country and took up the practice of his profession in Philadelphia. He soon became prominent as a physician ; was a member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor; of the Magdalen Asylum ; the Orphan Asylum and the Friends' Asylum for the Insane. He was secretary of College of Physicians and one of the physicians of Pennsylvania Hospital. He was buried at Sixteenth and Cherry streets, Philadelphia.

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Issue of Samuel and Beulah S. (Valentine) Emlen :-

James V. Emlen, M. D., b. 9mo. 21, 1820, d. s. p., 2mo. 29, 1880; m. Ann Armour ; Elizabeth Ann Emlen, b. romo. 4, 1822, d. Imo. 16, 1907; m. Iomo. 17, 1850, William Rockhill, M. D., son of John and Rachel (Griscom) Bullock. This branch of the family owns the old Emlen Bible, printed in 1603, one page of which is here re-produced.

Caleb Emlen, b. 8mo. 20, 1824, d. 3mo. 20, 1895; m. first, 12mo. 5, 1848, Hannah E. Dever, b. 2mo. 28, 1824, d. 7mo. 17, 1873; second, Mary L. (Wright) Reese, b. 1836, d. 1888; dau. of Alexander Wright.

Issue of first marriage :-

Samuel Emlen, b. 10, 3, 1849, d. I, 3, 1883; unm .;

Mary Dever Emlen, b. 8, 17, 1852;

Charles Emlen, b. 9, 17, 1854, d. 10, 24, 1901; m. Ellen G. Ewing ;

John Emlen, b. 2, 24, 1859;

James Emlen, b. 2, 24, 1859, d. II, 19, 1874,

Marion L. Emlen, b. 6, 15, 1867; m. 3, 23, 1893, George Worthington Scott.

Issue of second marriage :-

Clement H. Emlen, b. 4, 17, 1877; Anna Wright Emlen, b. 2, 14, 1881; m. Warren Hubley;

Mary Cresson Emlen, b. Iomo. 16, 1827; m. 4mo. 12, 1849, Clement H., son of Stephen W. and Mary N. (Jones) Smith; no issue.

JAMES EMLEN (James,4 George, George, George), born 6mo. 17, 1792, died 9mo. 20, 1866; married, Imo. 11, 1816, at Middletown Meeting, Sarah (Foulke) Farquhar, daughter and only child of Cadwalader and Phebe (Ellis) Foulke, and widow of William Farquhar, born 4mo. 27, 1787, in Upper Freehold, New Jersey.

James Emlen left an orphan at six years of age; was educated at West- town School and subsequently went to New York City, where he resided until his majority, with his sister Mary, who had married George Newbold. He was twenty-one years old when he removed to Middletown, Chester county, Pennsyl- vania, and occupied one of his father's farms, living in the old home called the "Upper House." Here he became a plain Friend; married; and after the birth of his third child, moved to the "Lower House", close at hand, also owned by his father, where the rest of his children were born and where he remained until his removal to Westtown School, in the spring of 1836. During this period he was appointed Elder of Society of Friends, a position which he con- tinued to hold as long as he lived. It was also at this time, that, in harmony with his inclination for a quiet but useful life, he conducted a private school for boys, to accommodate which he erected a building on his farm, which was used as a Meeting house by Orthodox Friends at the time of "the Separation in 1827," until a new Meeting house was built.

After moving to Westtown School, he, with his family, occupied one of the dwellings on the grounds of that Institution. In the spring of 1848 he removed to West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he passed in retirement, the last eighteen years of his life. His wife ( for many years a recorded minister of the Society of Friends) during the family's residence at Westtown, went on a religious visit to England, where she remained about two years. Her death occurred in the

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year following the removal to West Chester. The impulses, ideals and prin- ciples of James Emlen's character are well illustrated by the following con- cluding expressions in his will :

"Feeling grateful for the love and harmony that has always prevailed amongst my children, I much desire the same may be continued and descend to children's children, and this will be the case in proportion as it becomes the love and fellowship of the Gospel."

Issue of James and Sarah (Foulke) Emlen :---

James Emlen, b. 10mo. 16, 1816, d. Imo. 25, 1827;

Mary Emlen, b. at "Upper House," 3mo. 21, 1818, died 3mo. 16, 1893; m. 4mo. 14, 1842, Chalkley, son of Hughes Bell, farmer, and moved to the State of Illinois;

Phebe Emlen, b. at "Upper House," 4mo. 12, 1820, d. s. p., Imo. 14, 1887; m. first, J. Rowland Howell, of Chester co., Pa .; second, Cyrus Mendenhall, of Cincinnati, O .; third, William B. Cooper, of Camden, N. J .;

Sarah Cresson Emlen, b. at the "Lower House" 4mo. 19, 1822, d. 10mo. 7, 1901; m. 6mo 4, 1846, William P. Bangs, from Dover, N. H., merchant ;

Anne Emlen, b. at "Lower House" Iomo. 7, 1824, d. 8mo. 23, 1905; m. IImo. 4, 1852, Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah (Dillwyn) Howell, merchant ;

Susan Dillwyn Emlen, b. at "Lower House" 9mo. 20, 1826, d. Imo. 28, 1887; unm .; Samuel Emlen, b. at "Lower House" 3mo. 23, 1829; m. 9mo. 30, 1851, Sarah, dau. of George Guest and Hannah (Newlin) Williams. He is an eminent minister among Friends living in Germantown, Phila .; has issue :

C sorge Williams Emlen, b. 5, 4, 1853; m. Eleanor, b. 9, 15, 1854; dau. of Thomas Pim and Elizabeth S. Cope, of "Awbury," Germantown, Phila. Issue :

Mary Cope Emlen, b. 7, 3, 1878; m. 4, 27, 1904, Alfred Garret, son of Thomas Scattergood. Their dau., Elizabeth Cope Scattergood, was b. 4, 5, 1907;

Samuel Emlen, b. 3, 27, 1880; m. 6, 7, 1906 Marian Hartshorne Haines. Their son, Samuel Emlen, 3d, was b. 3, 27, 1907;

Arthur Cope Emlen, b. 4, 9, 1882;

George Williams Emlen, b. 5, 7, 1887; Esther Margaret Emlen, b. 4, 27, 1890;

James Emlen, b. II, 12, 1854; m. 12, 13, 1877, Susan Trotter, b. II, 27, 1853, d. 1, 18, 1879; dau. of John J. and Elizabeth Hough (Trotter) Thompson. Issue : John Thompson Emlen, b. 12, 28, 1878; m. 3, 6, 1906, Mary Carpenter, b. 8, 20, 1881 ; dau. of Woodruff and Sara Elizabeth Jones. Issue :

Susan Thompson Emlen, b. II, 19, 1907;

John Thompson Emlen, b. 12, 28, 1908.

Samuel Emlen, b. 12, 20, 1856, d. 2, 24, 1860;

Hannah Williams Emlen, b. 12, 20, 1859, d. I, 22, 1860;

Sarah Emlen, b. 4, 15, 1861; m. 5, 14, 1896, Walter Thomas Moore, of Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, b. 4, 8, 1854; son of Calvin and Sarah (Walter) Moore, of O .;

Mary Emlen, b. 6, 25, 1863; m. 6, 19, 1890, Joseph Stokes, M. D., b. 4, 8, 1862; son of Dr. N. Newlin and Martha E. Stokes, of Moorestown, N. J. Issue :

Eleanor Stokes, b. 9, 16, 1892;

Samuel Emlen Stokes, b. 7, 1, 1894;

Joseph Stokes, b. 2, 22, 1896;

Anne Emlen, b. II, 24, 1865; m. 10, 17, 1889, Walter Penn Shipley, Attorney-at- Law, b. 6, 20, 1860; son of Thomas and Eliza Drinker Shipley. Issue :

Thomas Emlen Shipley, b. 12, 25, 1890;

James Emlen Shipley, b. 4, 4, 1894;

Walter Penn Shipley, b. 11, 2, 1897.

W ALN FAMILY

Of Nicholas Waln, emigrant ancestor of the Pennsylvania family of that name, as well as of a number of other families who were prominent in Colonial history of Philadelphia and vicinity, friend and counselor of William Penn, and a fellow passenger with him in the "Welcome" in 1682, much has been written. Until recently, however, nothing was known of his parentage or place of residence in England, but we are now able to give some account of his parents and the place of his birth.

Richard Waln and Jane his wife, who lived in the small village of Burholme, in district called Bolland, in West Riding of Yorkshire, England, were among the earliest converts to Quakerism, in Yorkshire. They belonged to Bolland Meeting, a branch of Settle Montly Meeting, as early as 1654, a date very shortly after the rise of the Society of Friends.

The exact limits of the district called Bolland were somewhat indefinite, and even seem to have varied from time to time, or at least to have been variously apprehended by different authorities. Before Richard Waln's time there had been a forest here called "Bolland Forest" and there were, no doubt, remains of it even in his day, though no longer a forest in the official sense. It is pre- sumed that the Bolland of the old records was Bolland Liberty, and that it coin- cided with the ancient extent of the Forest. Baines' "Gazetteer of the County of York," 1822, speaks of Burholme as in the parish of Bolland, but this was doubtless an error, as no other authorities mention a parish of that name, while several show conclusively that Burgolme was in the parish of Slaidburn. The name Bolland, now spelt Bowland, which probably represents its proper pro- nunciation formerly as well as now, also applied to three townships included in the same region; one of these being High Bowland-Forest, a township entirely in the parish of Slaidburn and wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, West Riding of Yorkshire; another, Low Bowland-Forest, partly in the same parish and wapentake, and partly in the parish of Whalley, Blackburn Hundred, Lancashire; and the third altogether in the latter parish, hundred and shire. High and Low Bowland-Forest together constituted Bowland Liberty, which as abovesaid was no doubt what was meant by the Bolland in the old records.

Burholme itself, called "Borholme" in Baines' Gazetteer above referred to, and "Burham in Bolland" in the registers of Settle Monthly Meeting of Friends, can be definitely located. It was about eight miles northwest of Clitheroe, and in the parish of Slaidburn and Liberty of Bolland, most probably in the township of High Bowland-Forest, as that was all within said parish and most certainly in Yorkshire.

Of the personal affairs of Richard and Jane Waln we have little record. In 1664 Richard Waln was sued at Whitwell Court for tithes and had a mare taken from him worth four pounds. Jane Waln was daughter of Edward Rudd, of Knowmeare, Yorkshire, a place at present not identified, but doubtless also in parish of Slaidburn. As to her family besides her father, we know of two sisters, Dorothy and Mary Rudd, who married respectively the brothers, William

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and Cuthbert Hayhurst Jr., sons of Cuthbert and Alice Hayhurst, of Easington, in the same parish of Slaidburn, West Riding of Yorkshire; also an undoubted cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Giles Rudd, probably brother of Edward, of Mouldhils, in the same locality, who married Thomas Walmsley, of Wadington Eaves, in the same wapentake as all of the above Staincliffe and Ewcross, but in a different parish, Milton. All of these parties will be mentioned later as most of them accompanied Nicholas Waln to Pennsylvania.

Richard Waln died April 7, 1659, and his widow, Jane Waln, then of Slain- merow, parish of Slaidburn, married, October 31, 1667, at the house of Robert Walbancke, Newton, same parish, William Birket, of Newton. Their subse- quent residence was her house in Slaidberow, instead of his house in Newton, and here a number of her relatives or connections were married. In the records of some of these marriages her residence, or that of her husband, is given dif- ferently, but the duplicate or complementary entries show that Slaidberow con- tinued to be her home. Thus at the marriage of Elizabeth Rudd and Thomas Walmsley, which took place there November 13, 1665, her residence in one entry is given as "Smelfats", which is also given as Elizabeth Rudd's own residence, but the duplicate entry shows it to have been as above (though a copyist's error made it "Rainemerow". In one record of Jane Birket's son Nicholas Waln's marriage at the same house, October 1, 1673, it is called "Willm Birket's, Chapel- croft," the latter place being really Nicholas Waln's own residence; but two counter entries give it correctly, "Willm Birket's Slainmerow". If she was the same Jane Birket, at whose house in Slainmerow, Jenet Stackhouse and Richard Scott were married, April 9, 1696, and she probably was, as the Stackhouse family were connected by marriage, she must have survived her first husband thirty-seven years, living all that time in this place.

On the register of Settle Monthly Meeting occur the births of two children of Richard and Jane (Rudd) Waln, Anne, born August 15, 1654, and Edward, September 22, 1657. Of Edward we know nothing further, but Anne married James Dilworth and came to Pennsylvania as will be shown below. Richard and Jane are known to have had an elder son Nicholas, who came to Pennsylvania and founded the family which is the subject of this sketch, and there are sup- posed to have had another and still older son Richard Waln, also an early settler in Philadelphia county, and perhaps other children, the births having occurred before the parents joined Friends, and hence their births are not entered on Friends records.

RICHARD WALN, supposed to have been eldest son of Richard and Jane (Rudd) Waln, came to Pennsylvania in 1682, and settled in what was afterwards Chel- tenham township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county. He was a member of the Society of Friends. About this time there was filed in the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting a certificate for one Richard Wall from a Monthly Meeting "held at the House of Edward Edwards of Stock Orchard, in ye County of Gloucester" dated 4mo. 26, 1682, but whether this was our Richard Waln (whose name was as frequently spelled Wall as Waln in the early records here), or another, is not certain; nor does it suggest any relationship to Richard and Jane Waln, of Burholme, for Gloucestershire is not very near to Yorkshire. In Iomo., 1683, a meeting was established at the house of Richard Waln in Chelten- ham, which was the nucleus of Abington Particular Meeting. There were two

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other meetings in the vicinity at that time, one at Tacony, afterwards called Oxford Meeting, and one at John Hart's called Poquessing and later Bybery Meeting ; these three formed a monthly meeting early called indiscriminately by either of these names, but in 1702 definitely named Abington Monthly Meeting. Richard Waln was a leading spirit in the organization and served on many of the committees of this monthly meeting, and was frequently its representative in Quarterly Meeting. On gmo. 24, 1690, he was granted a certificate to travel to Maryland, no doubt on a religious visit. He died March 26, 1698, and was buried the 28th, at Cheltenham. His wife Joan died February 2, 1701-2, and was buried the 4th, also at Cheltenham. They were accompanied to Pennsyl- vania by their son, Richard Waln Jr., and the latter's daughter Sarah. Richard Jr. died April 6, 1689, and Sarah married, February 14, 1694-5, at her grand- father's house in Cheltenham, George Shoemaker. There seems to have been no other descendants of Richard Waln Sr. except Sarah Shoemaker, who was made sole executor of her grandfather's will, dated March 15, 1697-8, proved February 9, 1701-2, which mentioned no other relatives except his wife Joan.

Anne Waln, daughter of Richard and Jane (Rudd) Waln, born August 15. 1654, became a minister in the Society of Friends. She married, about 1680, James Dilworth, of Yorkshire, also a minister, and they afterwards went to Pennsylvania, at about the same time as her brother, Nicholas Waln. An account of him in "The Friend," ( Philadelphia, vol. xxvii, gives some personal particulars as to both: "James Dilworth, was an inhabitant of Thornby in York- shire before his removal to Pennsylvania, and was convinced of the Truth there. For a meeting held at his house on the 13th of Tenth Month, 1676, a fine was imposed on him, to satisfy which he had two oxen taken. At what time he came forth in the ministry we cannot tell, but he laboured faithfully therein according to his measure, having a loving helpful companion in his wife Ann, who was also a minister of the Gospel.

"James Dilsworth and Ann Waln were married about the year 1681, and some time after removed to this country, and settled in Bucks county. He was in public life for a time, representing his neighbors in the Assembly. In their religious labors, he and his wife travelled much together, visiting in this way, in 1689, the meetings of Friends in New England. In 1697 and perhaps the early part of 1698, they travelled southward through Maryland, Virginia and Carolina, having with both these visits the unity of the Yearly Meeting of Ministering Friends."

On 7mo. 26, 1698, Abington Monthly Meeting granted Ann Dilworth alone a certificate to visit Friends in England, by way of Barbados; the Yearly Meeting of Ministers, in March, 1698-9, approved her certificate, and she left about the end of the month. "The parting from her husband was a final one. A few months after her departure the yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia, and among the valuable Friends removed by it from works to rewards was James Dilworth. He died in the Seventh Month (September), 1699, being buried on the 15th, the First-day before Yearly Meeting."

James Dilworth appears to have served but one term in Assembly, that of 1685. About 1693 he removed to Bristol township, Philadelphia county, where he died. In his will dated September 8, 1699, proved December 10, 1700, he named his wife Ann, sole executrix, and mentioned his children : William, Rich-

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ard, Jane, Hannah, Jennett, Rebecca and James Dilworth ( brother-in-law, Nich- olas Waln, and friend, Edmund Orpwood.

Ann (Waln) Dilworth married (second) in 1701, probably in November, Christopher Sibthorp, of Philadelphia, a large landholder in the Northern Lib- erties, whose will dated December 25, 1707, proved January 24, 1707-8, men- tioned his wife Ann and children, not named, sister Elizabeth Whitwort, and her daughter Mary, and friends Joshua Fisher, Barbara Wright and her daughter Rebecca Corker. Ann (Waln) Sibthorp's own will, dated August 27, 1710, men- tioned her children: James, William, Richard and Rebecca Dilworth, making the sons William and Richard executors and Nicholas Waln and Edmund Orp- wood overseers.

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 27

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 710

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed; Jordan, Wilfred, b. 1884, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, NY : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 710