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James and Ann (Waln) Dilworth had eight children, as given below, the record of the births of the first six appearing on the register of Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, and those of the last two at Abington Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia county :
William Dilworth, b. in England, July 25, 1681;
Richard Dilworth, b. July 8, 1683; m. 1707, Elizabeth Worrell;
Jane Dilworth, b. March 18, 1684-5, d. 1701; m. May 8, 1701, at Oxford Meeting, Phila. co., Thomas Hodges, of Oxford twp., Phila. co., who d. March 28, 1708; he m. (second) his first wife's cousin, Hannah Waln, dau. of Nicholas, of whom here- after; Jane (Dilworth) Hodges had no issue;
Hannah Dilworth, b. Feb. 25, 1688-9; m. June 9, 1709, at Oxford Meeting, John Wor- rell, of Oxford twp,. brother of Elizabeth, wife of her brother, Richard Dilworth; Jennett Dilworth, b. March 20, 1690-1; m. 1710, Samuel Bolton ; Ann Dilworth, b. Feb. 9, 1691-2;
Rebecca Dilworth, m. Dec., 1711, George Shoemaker;
James Dilworth, b. Nov. 3, 1695; m. 1718, Sarah Worrell.
NICHOLAS WALN, son of Richard and Jane (Rudd) Waln, of Burholme, Bol- land, parish of Slaidburn, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, was born there about the year 1650, doubtless before his parents joined the Society of Friends, as his birth does not appear of record on the register of any Monthly Meeting in Yorkshire.
Before the date of his marriage, he had removed to Chapelcroft, same locality. On June 7, 1682, Settle Monthly Meeting issued a joint certificate to Nicholas Waln and family, together with a number of other persons, mostly connected with him by ties of more or less remote kinship, all intending to remove to Penn- sylvania. The persons included in this certificate, besides Nicholas Waln, his wife and three children, were: Cuthbert and William Hayhurst, his uncles by marriage, mentioned above as having married Mary and Dorothy Rudd, sisters to Nicholas Waln's mother, and the former's wife, Mary and children, William's wife, Dorothy, having died in 1676, and their daughter Ann, in 1678; the Hay- hurst's sisters, Alice and Margery, and their husbands, Thomas Wigglesworth and Thomas Stackhouse; Thomas Walmsley and his wife Elizabeth Rudd before mentioned as having married in 1665 at Nicholas Waln's mother's, whose cousin she was; Widow Ellen Cowgill, perhaps a sister of Thomas Stackhouse, and her children; Thomas Croasdale, Agnes, his wife, and six children, whose relation- ship is not so clear. A more particular account of this certificate and these people is given in the Cowgill descent of the Pemberton family in these volumes.
This whole party embarked on the ship, "Welcome", within a few months of
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the date of their certificate, accompanying William Penn, Lord Proprietary of Pennsylvania, on his first voyage to his Province, and arrived at New Castle, Delaware river, Territories of Pennsylvania, October 27, 1682. All these allied families proceeded to Bucks county, where the heads of the families, having already purchased land from the proprietary, had their land laid out to them. Here they took up their residences and laid the foundation for a considerable section of the local aristocracy of Colonial times, while the family connection already existing on their arrival was further strengthened by a number of inter- marriages between their descendants.
By deeds of lease and release dated April 21 and 22, 1682, Nicholas Waln bought of William Penn 1,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania. A Patent for 500 acres of this was issued to him by the Commissioners of Property, January 29, 1684-5, the land having been laid out in two tracts of 250 acres each, (the warrant for one bearing date March 21, 1683-4) on Neshaminy creek, one in Middletown township, and one across the creek in Northampton township, Bucks county. Both of these tracts are shown on Holme's Map of the Province. Waln sold all of this 500 acres, 200 to Edmund Cutler and 50 to Thomas Stackhouse in 1686; 50 to William Hayhurst in 1689, and 200 to John Stackhouse in 1695-6. Of the other half of his 1,000 acres purchase, the land was apparently never laid out in his name, he having sold his rights, 150 acres to Henry Walmsley ; 100 to Thomas Walmsley, brother of Henry; 230 to Jedediah Allen, of Shrewsbury, East Jersey, all in 1686; and to John Goodson his right to the Liberty Land in the County of Philadelphia appurtenant to his purchase, which under the original conditions would have been 20 acres, completing the purchase of 1,000 acres. These Liberty Lands, by a later ruling reduced to 16 acres, were ordered to be surveyed to John Goodson, by the Commissioners of Property, July 6, 1692. Besides these tracts Nicholas Waln purchased three other tracts in Bucks county, 118 acres of Thomas Holme's tract in Bristol township in 1686, which he sold to John Town in 1697; 340 acres in the same township of Eliza- beth, relict of Edmund Bennett in 1692, which he sold to Robert Heaton in 1697; and 250 acres of Thomas Croasdale, which he sold to Robert Heaton in 1702.
On the tract laid out to Nicholas Waln on the Neshaminy in Middletown township he erected a dwelling for himself, and here on January 1, 1682-3, the first Friends Meeting of the locality was held, for some years known as Ne- shaminy and afterwards down to the present as Middletown Meeting. It con- tinued to be held at the house of Nicholas Waln, and that of Robert Hall alter- nately until the Meeting-House was ready for use nearly five years later. The Bucks County Quarterly Meeting, 9mo. (November) 4, 1684, met at Waln's house, and afterwards alternated between that and William Biles's house in Falls, for a time, and continued to be held with him at least once a year until 1695, after which it convened at Falls and Middletown Meeting-houses.
Nicholas Waln was unquestionably the leader of the little party which had accompanied him into the wilderness along the Neshaminy. He was a member of the first Assembly, which met at Philadelphia, March 12, 1682-3, and repre- sented Bucks county in that body in 1687-88-89-92-95. He was a member of the first Grand Jury empaneled October 25, 1683, was Sheriff of Bucks county in 1685, and Justice of the Courts of that County.
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In 1696 he removed to Philadelphia county, taking up his residence in what was then known as the Northern Liberties, which embraced at that time a much larger part of the county than was comprised within the district subsequently incorporated under that name, extending a few squares above Vine street. His new neighbors placed the same value upon his abilities as had those of Bucks county, for he was immediately chosen a representative from Philadelphia county in the Assembly and served during the sessions of 1696-97-1700-01-13-14-15-17. He was also named as one of the directors of the public school with James Logan, Isaac Norris, Edward Shippen and others in 1711. As already shown Nicholas Waln was active in the councils of the Society of Friends. He was practically the founder of Middletown Monthly Meeting as above shown, and on his removal to Philadelphia became active and prominent in the Monthly Meeting there. In 1702 that meeting authorized him in conjunction with John Goodson to purchase for the use of Friends, four acres of Liberty Lands, and here was established the Fair Hill Burying Ground, and about 1706 or 1707, erected Fair Hill Meeting House on the Germantown road. He continued active in the Society of Friends until his death in 1721.
An extended account of him was published in "The Friend," vol. xxviii, from which we quote :-
"Sometime in the year 1682, Nicholas Waln, Jane his wife and their children reached Pennsylvania, and settled in Bucks County, near the Neshaminy. They probably were located before midsummer for before the end of that year he was elected one of the mem- bers of Assembly, which met in the First Month 1683. At this time, although noted among the 'faithful Friends', it does not appear that he had received a gift in the ministry. It was not long however, before he was called to labour by word and doctrine for the ever- lasting good of his fellow men. In this service he was much employed by his Divine Master at home and abroad, and he endeavored to acquit himself of the duties that devolved upon him, as respected his own self, the claims of his family, and of the public. This last was no light task, being fourteen times elected as a legislator of the new Colony.
"Early in the year 1689, with the approbation and unity of Friends Nicholas Walln paid a religious visit to Maryland. He was accompanied by James Radcliff. On returning from this visit he could gratefully acknowledge the comforting presence of their divine Master in the journey, and that they had had 'many good meetings.'
"Nicholas Walln had a share of the labour with George Keith, being one of the com- mittee of the Meeting of Ministers to advise with and admonish him. He bore his testi- mony against the spirit under which Keith was acting, and signed various of the docu- ments issued by the Yearly Meeting of Ministers and the Yearly Meeting of business, relative to that opposing and contentious one. About 1696 he removed to the neighborhood of Philadelphia and became a member of that Monthly Meeting. He was soon much employed by the meeting in transacting its businss, and, like his friend Griffith Owen, was a member of almost all committees on important subjects.
"In the First Month, 1699, he informed his Friends of the Select Meeting, that he had a concern to visit 'New England and thereaway' on religious service. This visit appears to have occupied several months."
The Friend publishes a letter from him soon after his return from this journey, to William Ellis, in England, telling him of the death of many Friends in Philadelphia from yellow fever in this year, among them his own brother-in-law, James Dilworth, and requests Ellis to remember him and his son Richard to their sister and aunt Ann Dil- worth, then also in England, and "to all our relations and friends in Bolland."
"After the Yearly Meeting in the Seventh Month 1702, Nicholas Waln, in company with John Lea, visited Friends in East and West Jersey and Long Island." In 1706 he was one of the representatives from the Quarterly Meeting that had charge of bringing that body's resolution against tombstones before the Yearly Meeting, recommending the latter to make a rule of discipline against their erection. At the same Yearly Meeting he was a member of the committee to draw up an epistle of instruction etc. to the Quarterly Meet- ing and Monthly Meetings, which is printed at length in The Friend.
"Nicholas Waln continued to be much employed in visiting neighboring meetings, and in fulfilling the various appointments laid on him by his Friends. Respected for his devotion to the Truth; honoured for his faithfulness in the discharge of his duty as a minister of the gospel, he passed along comfortably to a green old age. He was useful
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in the church, and in the world, almost to the very end of his days, taking an active share in the business of his Monthly Meeting only nine days before his death."
On his removal to Philadelphia county, Nicholas Waln immediately began to invest in land, principally in Liberty Lands, which he bought up in small quanti- ties, afterwards taking out patents for the consolidated tracts. During the years 1696-97-98, he purchased altogether of many different persons, 651 acres, of which he sold at different periods before a patent was made to him, in small lots an aggregate of 163 acres, leaving him a right to 488 acres in one contiguous tract. This tract on a re-survey was found to contain 520 acres, for which a patent was issued by the Commissioners of Property bearing date January 24, 1703-4. Besides this tract he had purchased before removing to Philadelphia county, from the executor of George Wilcox, 400 acres in Bristol township, Philadelphia county, being one-half of the 800 acres originally granted to Barna- bas Wilcox, father of George; the deed therefor bearing date September 10, 1695. In right of his 1,000 acre purchase Nicholas Waln was entitled to two lots in the city of Philadelphia which he never took up. They were claimed by his descendants and in 1834-35 were patented to his great-great-grandson, Jacob S. Waln.
Nicholas Waln died in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, February 4, 1721-2. His will dated January 30, and proved March 19, 1721-2, named his wife Jane and his son Richard as executors, and mentioned the following chil- dren : Nicholas, William, Jane, Hannah, Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth; Nicholas receiving the homestead of 300 acres and 3 negroes ; William fifty pounds and 2 negroes, and the daughters five shillings each. His wife survived him but the date of her death is not known.
According to the certificate granted by Settle Monthly Meeting, before referred to, Nicholas Waln was accompanied to Pennsylvania by his wife Jane, nee Turner, and three children. The register of Settle Monthly Meeting shows the dates of birth of the following children of Nicholas and Jane (Turner) Waln :
Jane Waln, b. 5mo. 16, 1675; Margaret Waln. b. 8mo. 3, 1677, d. inf .; Richard Waln, b. I mo. 6, 1678; Margaret Waln, b. IImo. 12, 1682.
The register of births at Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, gives the dates of birth of the three children who accompanied their parents to Pennsylvania, and those of five others born in Bucks county. Two of the three dates relative to the older children differ slightly from those given on the Settle register; the date of birth of the second Margaret, given on the Middletown records as "IImo. 10, 1680," is more likely correct than that given on the Settle registry, since at the date given on the Settle Register the family had already left England, in which case the birth could hardly have been recorded in Settle.
The three youngest of the twelve children of Nicholas and Jane Waln were born in Philadelphia county and the dates of their birth given below are from the birth registry of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. To avoid confusion as to old and new style, the names of the month are given instead of the number as used
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on Friends' records, and in all cases where the date occurs between January I and March 21, the double year is given.
Issue of Nicholas and Janc (Turner) Waln :-
Jane Waln, b. Yorkshire, July 16, 1675; m. May 27, 1691, at "Neshamina", now Middletown Meeting, Samuel Allen Jr., of Neshamina, Bucks co., Pa .; son of Samuel Allen, who with his family came from England in the ship "Bristol Factor," arriving at Chester, Dec. II, 1681. The Allens were prominent in early times in Bucks co., and intermarried with the leading county families; they were settled on Neshaminy creek in Bensalem twp., then included in a rather indefinite region known as Neshamina or Neshamina creek;
Margaret Waln, b. Yorkshire, Oct. 3, 1677, d. inf .; on the register of Settle Meeting the date of her death is given as March 28, 1676, but this is impossible as that date precedes the date of her birth, perhaps 1678 was intended;
RICHARD WALN, b. Yorkshire, June 6, 1678; m. Anne Heath, of them presently;
Margaret Waln, b. Yorkshire, Jan. 10, 1680-I, d. unm. before her father;
Hannah Waln; b. Bucks co., Pa., Sept. 21, 1684; m. (first) March, 1704, Thomas Hodges, who had previously married her cousin, Jane Dilworth, before mentioned; he died March 28, 1708; she m. (second) Nov., 1712, Benjamin Simcock; she had issue by both husbands, who have left descendants;
Mary Waln, b. Bucks co., Pa., April 7, 1687, d. July 19, 1721, m. 1706, John Simcock, brother of Benjamin; she was a minister of the Society of Friends and an account of her published in The Friend, vol. xxxv, begins as follows :
"Mary Walln, a daughter of that worthy minister of the Gospel of Christ, Nicholas Walln and Jane his wife, was born in Middletown, Bucks County, in the year 1686 or 1687. Her parents soon after her birth, removed into the limits of Philadelphia Meeting, and there she was brought up. Being tenderly visted in early life by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus, and giving up thereto, the pious precepts and example of her parents were blessed to her, and she was enabled to manifest by conduct and con- versation that her soul was enamored with the beauty of holiness, and the blessed consistancy of the Truth. Early in the year 1706, when about nineteen years of age she was married to John Simcock, the son of that eminent minister of that name who resided near Chester. The newly married couple resided near Abington for many years, where Mary received a gift in the ministry which she exercised to the comfort of Friends. After passing many years of usefulness in that neighborhood, both in the church and in the world, they, about the year, 1740 removed to Kingwood, New Jersey." Then follows a memorial of her husband too long for insertion here. She d. at Kingwood, May 19, 1771, "in the 80th year of her age, as Minister upwards of 50 years"; and her husband d. there April 23, 1773, "in the 86th year of his age"; on the records of Kingwood Monthly Meeting appear tender and eloquent memorials of both ;
Ellen Waln, b. Bucks co., March 27, 1690, d. unm. Jan. 4, 1707-8;
Sarah Waln, b. Bucks co., June 9, 1692; m. (first) in 1711, Jacob Simcock, brother of Benjamin and John above mentioned. These three brothers were sons of Jacob and Alice (Maris) Simcock, and grandson of John Simcock, and George Maris, both members of the Provincial Council and otherwise prominent in the early history of Pa., and founders of two very prominent and aristocratic Chester county families.
Sarah (Waln) Simcock m. (second) Feb. 27, 1721-2, Jonathan Palmer, whose family occupied in Bucks co. a position similar to that of the Simcocks and Marises in Chester co .;
Jacob Simcock was b. Sept. 28, 1686, and d. Feb. 1716-17, leaving issue;
John Waln, b. Bucks co., Pa., Aug. 10, 1694, d. 1720, and is therefore not mentioned in his father's will; he m. Aug. 30, 1717, Jane, b. 1696, dau. of John and Elizabeth (Hardy) Mifflin, of "Fountain Green", now part of Fairmount Park, Phila., and granddaughter of John Mifflin, of Warminster, Wiltshire, England, b. 1638, who came to America between 1676 and 1679, settling among the Swedes on the Delaware river, and in 1680 took up the "Fountain Green" plantation on the Schuylkill; (see Life and Ancestry of Warner Mifflin, by Hilda Justice, Phila. 1805, abstracts from which are given in our sketch of the Justice Family in these volumes. In which publication, however, the name of Jane Mifflin's husband is given as John Waller, instead of Waln.) Their dau. and probably only child, Elizabeth Waln, m. June II, 1741, at Phila. Monthly Meeting, Robert Worrel, of Phila., son of Rich- ard Worrell, of Lower Dublin twp., Phila. co., Pa .;
Elizabeth Waln, b. Northern Liberties, Phila., March 27, 1697, is supposed to have been the Elizabeth Waln who m. April 24, 1719, James Duberry, (properly Dub- ree), son of Jacob and Jane, b. June 22, 1698;
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Nicholas Waln, b. Northern Liberties, Phila., March 24, 1698-9, d. there, unm., Feb. II, 1721-2; his will, which states that he is a son of Nicholas Waln, late of North- ern Liberties of Phila., was signed Feb. 6, 1721-2, two days after his father's death, and probated March 19; it mentioned his brothers William and Richard, and his sisters, but not by name; his mother Jane and brother Richard were named as executors; a "friend Hannah Maris" was also mentioned, who was most likely his fiance; if they had married this would have been four marriages of Nicholas Waln's children with the Maris family, but death canceled the engagement;
William Waln, b. Northern Liberties, Phila., March 15, 1700-1; m. Ann Hall, daughter of Samuel and Mary, of Springfield twp., Chester co., Pa .; they appear to have had but one child, Samuel Waln, who m. (first) Nov. 13, 1747, Ann Rushton; (second) June II, 1767, Sarah Steel; he had eight children, all by his first wife, concerning whom we have little data, aside from the fact that the fourth child, Hannah, b. March 24, 1754, m. at Christ Church, April 24, 1773, Jonathan Matlack.
RICHARD WALN, eldest son of Nicholas and Jane (Turner) Waln, born at Burholme, parish of Slaidburn, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, June 6, 1678, although not as prominent in the public affairs of his day as his father, was, however, keenly alive to the developing conditions in the Northern Liber- ties, where he continued to reside after his father's death for a number of years. The Provincial Council at a meeting held September 20, 1734, appointed him, together with Isaac Norris, Thomas Griffitts, Thomas Masters, James Steel and Benjamin Eastburn, all conspicuous men in that section of Philadelphia county, a commission to review Germantown road from the boundary of the city to Cohocksink creek, "& make such Alterations therein as may best suit the Pub- lick Service, with as little damage as possible to any private Persons."
Richard Waln married, prior to September 30, 1706, at Abington Meeting, Anne, daughter of Robert Heath. The minutes of the monthly meeting of that date, at which the marriage was reported as having been accomplished pre- viously, evidently since the last Monthly Meeting, state that he was a son of Nicholas Waln, and belonged to Fair Hill Particular Meeting.
Richard Waln later removed to Norriton township, Philadelphia, now Mont- gomery county, where he resided several years, and where he died in 1756. In his will dated December 1, 1753, proved June 16, 1756, he mentioned his chil- dren : Richard, Robert, Nicholas, Joseph, Ann, Susanna and Mary; also his grandchildren, but not by name; his son Joseph being named as executor. The dates of birth of the children of Richard and Anne Waln as given below are taken from the register of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.
Issue of Richard and Anne (Heath) Waln :-
Nicholas Waln, b. Aug. 25, 1707; bur. Sept. 3, 1707;
NICHOLAS WALN, b. March 19, 1709-10; m. Mary Shoemaker, of whom presently; Jane Waln, b. Aug. 6, 1711, d. Aug. 17, 17II;
Jane Waln, b. Feb. 20, 1712-13, d. Oct. 4, 1714;
Anne Waln, b. Feb. 16, 1714-15; m. May, 1753, Jonathan Maris, grandson of George Maris, Provincial Councillor, before mentioned ;
RICHARD WALN, b. June 5, 1717, of whom presently ;
Susanna Waln, b. June 9, 1719; m. Nov., 1739, Joseph Levis;
ROBERT WALN, b. March 21, 1720-I; m. Rebecca Coffin, of whom hereafter;
Joseph Waln, b. Dec. 18, 1722, d. in 1760, on the plantation inherited from his father; m. Dec. 31, 1747, at Abington Meeting, Susannah, dau. of James Paul, of Abing- ton twp., then of Northern Liberties, Phila .; they had no issue; Joseph Waln's will dated March 5, 1759, proved Oct. 13, 1760, mentioned his wife Susannah, brothers Nicholas, Richard, and Robert; sisters Susanna Levis, Anne Maris, and Mary Brown; nephews and nieces, Richard and Nicholas Waln, William Levis, Jesse and Joseph Waln, and Sarah, Ann, and Mary Waln; father-in-law, James
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Paul, who with testator's brother's Richard and Robert Waln was named as executor ;
Mary Waln, b. Aug. 15, 1724; m. Joseph Brown.
NICHOLAS WALN, eldest son of Richard and Anne (Heath) Waln, was born March 19, 1709-10, died in August, 1744, having been born and passed most of his life on the old Waln estate in the Northern Liberties, which he inherited; though in his later years he resided in the city proper. He does not appear to have been active in public affairs. His will dated August 16, probated August 3, 1744, named his wife Mary, brother Robert, and children: Richard, Ann, Nicholas and Rebecca, naming as executors Mary Waln, Jacob Shoemaker and Robert Waln.
Nicholas Waln married, May 23, 1734, under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Mary, daughter of George and Rebecca (Dilworth) Shoemaker. She was a distant cousin to her husband, her mother, Rebecca (Dilworth) Shoe- maker, being the youngest daughter of James Dilworth by his wife Anne Waln, sister to Nicholas Waln, emigrant, grandfather of the Nicholas Waln now under consideration.
After her husband's death, Mary (Shoemaker) Waln resided on his Northern Liberties property and died there in 1756. Her will dated January 19, 1745-6, proved June 23, 1756, mentions her children: Ann, Rebecca, Richard and one other (Nicholas) not by name; her parents, George and Rebecca Shoemaker, and her brother, Jacob Shoemaker.
Issue of Nicholas and Mary (Shoemaker) Waln :-
Ann Waln, eldest child, d. unm .;
RICHARD WALN, b. about 1737; m. Elizabeth Armitt, of whom presently;
Rebecca Waln, m. Abraham Howell; their only child who survived infancy, Mary Howell, m. Henry Drinker, eldest child of John and Rachel (Rynear) Drinker, and nephew of Henry Drinker, whose wife was Elizabeth Drinker, the diarist. His father, John Drinker, was one of the most active of the Quakers in opposing the Revolution, on religious grounds, and being of a literary turn, he published some pamphlets on this and other subjects, as well as some poems. He was one of the victims of the mob that started the "Fort Wilson" riot on Oct. 4, 1779, and was ill- treated by another mob in 1781. Henry and Mary (Howell) Drinker had five chil- dren: John Drinker, of the Philadelphia bar; Henry Waln Drinker, of Luzerne Co., Pa., where he owned very extensive tracts of land which he developed and opened up for settlement; Rebecca Drinker; Richard Drinker, of Bloomsburg, Pa., afterwards of Scranton, Pa., who like his grandfather was "possessed of a turn for poetry, and wrote and published several poems; William Waln Drinker, a member of the New York bar, who also "Possessed a poetical gift." All four of the sons married and left issue, their numerous descendants being now widely scattered throughout the country;
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