Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 30

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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"After a solemn pause, Nicholas Waln rose on his feet. His heart seemed filled with Gospel love, to which his richly-melodious voice gave utterance, while the baptizing power of the Holy Spirit accompanying the word preached, softened the hearts and moistened the eyes of those there gathered. He stood and ministered for about an hour; after which, upon his knees, he lifted up the voice of prayer and praise. A solemnity very unusual covered those assembled, as he ceased to offer on their behalf supplication to the God of Mercy and grace. The solemnity continued, and they remained sitting together, baptized into oneness of feeling. Those at the head of the gallery at last shook hands in token that the meeting had closed. The solemnity was still unbroken and no one seemed willing to depart. A pause ensued; Nicholas then spoke out: 'Under the solemn covering we are favored with, perhaps Friends had better separate'. A few young men near the door then rose on their feet, but the solemnity was still over them, and observing none follow their example, they sat down again. Sweet, awful silence continued, until Richard Jordan, standing up broke forth with the song of triumph, which greeted our Saviour's entrance into Jerusalem, 'Hosanna! blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord!' A few sentences followed, setting forth the blessedness of those merciful visitations, these sea- ons of fervor, wherein the Saviour makes Himself known among his people. He sat down, and again shaking hands with the Friend by his side the meeting was ended."

One of his contemporaries who had frequently sat in meeting with him, thus commented upon him in after years: "Nicholas Waln appeared at all times with a smile of sunshine upon his countenance."

During the Revolution it is needless to say, Nicholas Waln in no way partici- pated in the pending strife ; but he was one of the party of six Friends who, act- ing as a committee on behalf of the Yearly Meeting held October 4, 1777, while the battle of Germantown was in progress, waited on General Washington and General Howe a few days afterwards in the interest of peace. Twelve years later, almost to the day, October 3, 1789, it fell to the lot of Nicholas Waln as clerk of the Yearly Meeting, to address another communication to General Washington, then in the first year of his first term as President of the United States, in which he set forth :

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"We take the liberty to assure thee that we feel our hearts affectionately drawn towards thee, and those in authority over us, with prayers that thy Presidency may, under the blessing of Heaven, be happy to thyself and to the people. And it is our earnest con- cern, that He may be pleased to grant thee every necessary qualification to fill thy weighty and important station to his glory; and that finally, when all terrestial honours shall fall and pass away, thou and thy respectable consort may be found worthy to receive a crown of unfading righteousness in the mansions of peace and joy forever."

Nicholas Waln died September 29, 1813, having just passed his seventy-first milestone. By his will dated April 8, 1811, proved October 13, 1813, he gave legacies to James Simson, Benjamin White, of Bucks county, John Townsend, the Monthly Meeting of Philadelphia, Southern District, to be paid to Jesse Williams; the children of his first cousin, Mary Drinker, wife of Henry; Jane Halfpenny, and his servant Tom; and the residue of his estate to his wife Sarah, making his sons William and Nicholas, executors.

Nicholas Waln married, May 22, 1771, Sarah, only child of Joseph and Sarah (Morris) Richardson, and great-granddaughter of Anthony Morris, the founder of the family in America, by his second wife, Mary Coddington. She was born in Philadelphia, October II, 1746, died April 13, 1825. George Ross, son of George Ross, the "Signer", in commenting on Nicholas Waln as an early prac- titioner at the Lancaster county courts, makes this reference to his marriage : "And to crown his brilliant career at the Bar, he married Sarah Richardson, an only child of Joseph Richardson of Philadelphia of large fortune, and what was of infinitely more value, possessed of every endowment that could render the married state agreeable and happy."

She was an exceedingly small woman, and there is a tradition in the family that her father balanced her in a pair of scales with a bag of gold coin, which was to be her dowry, she being thus literally "worth her weight in gold." Before her marriage she moved in the most fashionable circles in Philadelphia and had all the luxuries her wealthy and doting parent could supply ; but after her mar- riage she was obliged to conform to the more simple tastes of her husband. This was not agreeable to her, and she complained to him of not being able to ride in the same style as formerly with a footman to open and close the carriage door. In advanced life Sarah is described as "a small thin old lady, with rather mas- culine features and great vivacity of manner." Ann Warder in her diary under date of June 21, 1786, writes : "Dined with Nicholas Waln's wife, (he is in New England with John Townsend). We had a truly comfortable and agreeable visit. Friend Waln is a woman whose acquaintance will enrich anybody, she is lively and sprightly, but much of the Friend and gentlewoman and nothing in her dress or house or conduct bespeaks that gaiety we had been told in England she possessed." (Ann Warder had recently come from London, where she had mar- ried John Warder, the son of a rich Philadelphia merchant, representing his father's house there).

Issue of Nicholas and Sarah (Richardson) Waln:

Mary Waln, b. May II, 1772, d. same day;

Joseph Richardson Waln, b. May 8, 1773, d. Dec. 13, 1783;

WILLIAM WALN, b. March 16, 1775; m. Mary Willcocks, of whom presently ; Nicholas Waln, b. Oct. 14, 1778, d. unm. July 4, 1849;

Jacob Shoemaker Waln, b. August 19, 1783, d. unm. June 30, 1847;

Sarah Waln, b. January 6, 1788, d. July 20, 1788;

A male child, b. Oct. 28, 1790, d. "at birth".

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WILLIAM WALN, son of Nicholas and Sarah (Richardson) Waln, born in Philadelphia, March 16, 1775, died there February II, 1826. He was married March 4, 1805, by Rev. William White, (afterwards Bishop) rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia, to Mary, born 1781, died December 3, 1841, daughter of John and Mary Willcocks, of Philadelphia.

Issue of William and Mary (Willcocks) Waln :-

SARAH WALN, b. May 22, 1806; m. Benjamin Chew Willcocks, of whom presently ; John Willcocks Waln, d. unm. Aug. 26, 1824;

Nicholas Waln, b. Dec. 15, 1810, d. unm. Sept. 22, 1820; bur. Sept. 24, in St. Peter's churchyard, 3d and Pine sts .;

Mary Ann Willcocks Waln, b. May 12, 1818, d. Sept. 12, 1821 ;

Mary Willcocks Waln, b. Sept. 28, 1821, d. Nov. 23, 1821;

William Waln, d. unm., March, 1861;

Mary Waln, d. about 1889; m. Richard Maxwell, M. D., and had one dau., Ella Mid- dleton Maxwell, b. Feb. 8, 1845, d. March, 1869.

SARAH WALN, daughter of William and Mary (Willcocks) Waln, born in Philadelphia, May 22, 1806, died June 6, 1886. She married, October 10, 1842, her cousin, Benjamin Chew Willcocks, born December 13, 1776, died December I, 1845, son of Alexander and Mary (Chew) Willcocks, and grandson of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew. They had issue :

MARY WALN WILLCOCKS, b. July 13, 1843; m. Alexander Dallas Campbell, of whom presently ;

Helen Julia Willcocks, b. Jan. 20, 1845, d. March, 1868; m. Chandler Robbins.

MARY WALN WILLCOCKS, daughter of Benjamin C. and Sarah (Waln) Will- cocks, born July 13, 1843, was married October 20, 1870, by Rev. John Andrews Harris, in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, to Alexander Dallas Campbell, of the Philadelphia bar, son of St. George Tucker Campbell, of a noted Virginia family. They lived at 1522 Pine street, Philadel- phia, and had issue :

Helen Campbell, b. July 20, 1871; m. 1892, James Cheston Morris Jr., b. April 1, 1861, son of James Cheston Morris, M. D., of 1514 Spruce st., Philadelphia, one of Phila- delphia's distinguished physicians, member of numerous medical societies, etc., by his wife, Hannah Ann Tyson, of Baltimore branch of old Germantown family of Tyson, an account of which is given in these volumes. James Cheston Morris Jr. is a descendant in the eighth generation from Anthony Morris, founder of that family in Phila., from which his wife, Helen Campbell, is also descended through her ancestress, Sarah (Richardson) Waln, whose mother, Sarah Morris, was a daughter of William and Sarah (Dury) Morris and granddaughter of Anthony, the founder. James Cheston and Helen (Campbell) Morris, had one daughter :

Mary Campbell Morris, b. Sept. 30, 1893;

Elizabeth Mason Campbell, b. Jan. 12, 1875; m. Dec. 10, 1896, at the Church of the Ascension, Phila., by the rector, Rev. George Woolsey Hodge, assisted by Rev. John Andrews Harris, of St. Paul's, Chestnut Hill, to Percy Child Medeira, b. in Phila., son of Louis Cephas and Abeline Laura (Powell) Madeira. She was his second wife.

RICHARD WALN, second surviving son of Richard and Anne (Heath) Waln, was born June 5, 1717, died August, 1764. He resided on the Waln plantation in the Northern Liberties, (where he was doubtless born) until his marriage, after which he followed his father to Norriton township, now Montgomery county. This section was within the compass of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, on

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the minutes of which for August 28, 1744, it is stated that "Richard Waln, Junr. produced a certificate for self and wife from Philadelphia, dated 29th of 4th month last." He lived in Norriton about eleven years. At the Monthly Meet- ing of August 26, 1755, a certificate was granted to Richard Waln and wife to Abington, which he presented to and was accepted by the latter monthly meet- ing, January 26, 1756. This removal was to Germantown, and he resided there the remainder of his life.

As Richard Waln did not reside in the city of Philadelphia, his name does not figure so often in the "Journal of Elizabeth Drinker" as do those of some of his relatives, but he appears to be mentioned at least once ; on November 26, 1777, Mrs. Drinker records Richard Waln as one of their callers, and at this date the Drinkers were intimate friends, Richard Waln, of Philadelphia and Walnford, New Jersey, was in New York, so the caller referred to was probably his uncle, Richard Waln, of Germantown. The death of the latter's daughter, Ann (Nancy) Thomas, and the marriage of another daughter Mary, are also noted by Mrs. Drinker.

In his will dated August 10, 1764, proved September 5, 1764, Richard Waln mentioned his wife Hannah; children: Sarah, Jesse, Mary and Ann Thomas ; grandchild, Richard Thomas ; brother, Robert; cousin, Thomas Livezey; son-in- law, Elisha Thomas ; and named as executors, Robert Waln and Thomas Livezey. Richard Waln married, about 1740, Hannah -, and they had issue :-

Sarah Waln, living at her father's death, nothing further known of her;

Ann Waln, m. Elisha Thomas, probably son of Robert Thomas, of Lower Dublin twp., Phila. co. After their marriage they lived in Moreland twp., now Montgomery co. From Elizabeth Drinker's Journal under date of July 26, we quote the following, "Nancy Thomas was this afternoon buried from neighbor Waln's. She had been a long time very ill and suffered more than any one that has come within my knowl- edge of a disorder of ye nature hers was." The "Neighbor Waln," was Rebecca, widow of Robert Waln, uncle to Nancy Thomas, a son of Elisha and Ann;

Jonathan Thomas lived in Northern Liberties; he m. Nov. 17, 1808, at Abington Meeting, Sarah Mather, dau. of Benjamin and Ann, of Cheltenham twp .; both Elisha and Ann Thomas were deceased at the date of this marriage;

Mary Waln, m. Feb. II, 1777, Charles Mifflin, son of George and Anne (Eyre) Mifflin, of Phila .;

JESSE WALN, m. Rebecca . of whom presently; Joseph Waln, d. y., before his father.

JESSE WALN, born about 1750, died March 29, 1806, was the only surviving son of Richard and Hannah Waln. He was one of the most prominent and successful merchants of Philadelphia in his day, having associated with him in business his cousin, Robert Waln, Congressman, hereafter mentioned. He was one of the founders of and first directors of the Insurance Company of Penn- sylvania, established in 1794. In 1791 he was living in Germantown, as shown by extracts from the "Journal of Elizabeth Drinker," quoted above, we have the following, under June 20 of that year: "There are a number of Philadelphians at Germantown, Pattison Vanhorne's family, John Prout's family, Jeremh Warder's, Jessy Waln's &c. &c." The Pattison Vanhorne mentioned married Jesse Waln's cousin Susannah, daughter of Robert Waln. The Journal also records Jesse Waln's death : "1806, March 29, Jessy Waln is dead. He died rather suddenly ; some say of pleurisy, others of an apoplexy".

Jesse Waln married Rebecca --- , who died November 4, 1820. "Eliza-

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beth Drinker's Journal" mentions her during the yellow-fever year, 1793, Octo- ber 3; "Becky Waln, Jessy's wife, came to see us. She informed us of the death of several persons whom we do not know."

Issue of Jesse and Rebecca Waln :-

Mary Waln, m. William Moore Wharton, b. June 24, 1768, son of Thomas Wharton Jr., President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pa., by his wife, Susannah Lloyd. She was his first wife. Elizabeth Drinker, whose previous mention of her has been quoted in our account of her cousin, Polly ( Waln) Wistar, records Mrs. Wharton's burial in 1800; "July 10, Molly Wharton, wife of Mayor Wharton, and daughter of Jesse Waln, was buried this afternoon from the country, II or 12 carriages, and several chairs attended. They passed our door. She died of a consumption-an old acquaintance of our Molly's." Mayor Wharton is a mistake, an error for Moore Wharton.

By his second wife Deborah Shomaker, Moore Wharton had eight children, one of whom, Daniel Clark Wharton, b. July 9, 1808, m. Feb. 1, 1843, Ann Waln, dau. of Thomas Waln Morgan, who was son of Thomas Morgan, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Robert Waln, mentioned hereafter;

Sarah Waln, m. April 26, 1797, at Christ Church, Thomas Buckley; Elizabeth Drinker's Journal under date of April 27, 1797, says: "Jesse Waln's daughter was married last night to T. Buckley, she is going with him to Lisbon, where he and his parents resided-to the great grief of her mother- No wonder, perhaps never to see her more;"

Jesse Waln, b. March 17, 1784, d. unm. May 2, 1848;

Ann Waln, b. 1788, d. Jan. 12, 1789;

Ann Waln, b. Feb. 25, 1790, d. Oct. 26, 1875; m. Jan. 2, 18II, at Pine st. Meeting House, Samuel Burge Rawle, of Phila., son of William and Sarah C. Rawle. She was b. July I, 1787, d. Sept. 2, 1858. They had five children, viz :

William S. Rawle, m. Nov. 12, 1831, Maria, dau. of Count Jose Elcorrobarutia, of Lima, Peru ;

Mary Wharton Rawle, d. unm. 1886;

Rebecca Shoemaker Rawle, m. James Smith Lewis, in 1833;

Burge Rawle, d. inf .;

Elizabeth M. Rawle, m. 1835, Thorndike Deland;

Rebecca Waln, b. 1792, d. July 15, 1796:

Rebecca Waln, m. Edward Tilghman, b. Feb. 27, 1779, d. Jan. 17, 1826, son of Edward Tilghman, by his wife Elizabeth Chew, dau. of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew, and grandson of Col. Edward Tilghman, of Wye, Talbot co., Md., and his second wife, Elizabeth Chew, sister of the Chief Justice.

ROBERT WALN, third surviving son of Richard and Ann (Heath) Waln, born on the Waln plantation in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, March 21, 1720-I, died in Philadelphia, July 12, 1784. He established a successful mercan- tile business in Philadelphia, which was continued by his son of the same name. Like most of the merchants of his day. he was also a ship owner ; among the . ship-registers for the port of Philadelphia his name occurs as owner of the 40-ton brigantine, "Rebecca", built at Marcus Hook, registered in 1753; the 49-ton brigantine, "Lark", built at Sussex on Delaware, registered in 1754; the 90-ton brigantine, "Rebecca and Susannah" registered 1757; the 30-ton sloop, "Nancy", built in "Queen's County, Maryland" (Queen Anne's county?) regis- tered 1758; the 75-ton brigantine, "Lark", built in Philadelphia, registered 1758. These were fair-sized vessels for that time, very few on the registers then exceeding 100 tons. In 1765 he affixed his signature to the Non-importation agreement, which had so much influence in precipitating the Revolution.

Robert Waln married, about 1750, Rebecca, who died in 1799, daughter of Jacob and Rachel (Rakestraw) Coffin, of Philadelphia. Her father had died in 1736. Her mother, Rachel, was a daughter of William Rakestraw, of Philadel-

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phia, whose will dated August 28, 1736, proved October 5, 1736, mentions his wife Anne; children, William, Grace and Rachel; grandchildren, Rebecca and Hannah, daughters of Rachel; and makes Anne and William Rakestraw, execu- tors. Rebecca (Coffin) Waln's sister Hannah, mentioned with her in the above quoted will, married, October 17, 1758, at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Isaac Cathrall; she is frequently mentioned in the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, above quoted.

For a great part of their married life Robert and Rebecca Waln, with their family, resided on Front street, below Sassafrass, now Race street, near to Henry and Elizabeth Drinker, who lived on the northwest corner of Front street and Drinker's alley, and they are frequently mentioned in the latter's Jour- nal, from which the following are some of the extracts :

"June 6, 1774, when Richard Waln and family removed to Walnford, as noted above, "Robert Waln and wife went with them as far as Bristol" "June 22, our children, Nancy Waln, Hannah and Polly Drinker, went in our waggon to Kensington. * * * Aug. 26, Rebk Waln and her daughter Nancy, M.S.E.D., Sally, Nancy and Billy went to see the Waxworks made by Mrs. Wells, "opposite ye Royal White Oak." 1777, Nov. 7. "Sally and Nancy went this afternoon, with Hannah Drinker and Nancy Waln, up to Phillips Rope-Walk, to see ye Redoubts which are erected thereabouts." Nov. 12 "Robt Waln, C. West, and Edwd Drinker's widow called." Nov. 21. "C. West, Sam Smith, and Reba Waln were here. Ye last came in ye evening; she is afraid to go to Bed, as there is talk of Washington making an attack on ye city before morning." Dec. 9. "Neighbor Waln sent a Horse and Chaise here this afternoon to put into our stable, which Patterson's sisters came with from Bristol". Patterson was probably Pattison Hartshorne, Robert Waln's son-in-law. 1778, Feb. 23. "Robt Waln, Josa Howell, and John Drinker called" March 5, "Old Edward Drinker and Robt Waln called." Sept. 6. Robt Waln, myself my two sons, Bob Waln, Neddy Howell, and Anna Waln took a walk this afternoon to Springettsbury to see ye Aloes Tree. We stopped on our return at Bush-Hill and walked in ye Garden. We came home after sunset very much tired * *

Waln came over. With her I went to ye Burial of my old friend and acquaintance Nancy Potts, formerly Mitchell, whom I much valued.

* Sept. 18, Rebecca

1779, Feb. 19. "R. Waln here this evening. She proposed my being an overseer with her at C. Howell's approaching Nuptials. She is to pass meeting on third day next with Johns Hopkins from Maryland * * * Feb. 23. "Went to Monthly Meeting this morning with Johns Hopkins and Caty Howell; Rebecca Waln is my partner on ye occa- sion-felt a little comical on going into ye men's meeting." May 2. "On Third day last, at Monthly Meeting Hannah Cathrall made a minute, (that one of ye Friends who attended ye marriage of Johns Hopkins &c. reported that it was orderly accomplished) which as Rebecca Waln was the person who spoke and I only stood up, made it necessary for me to repeat what she had before said, or to ye same effect, which was something trying to me, as I do not remember an instance of its being required of both, as my appearance fully attested to what 4.2. delivered." 1782. "February 5. Sally, Nancy, Nancy Waln, Jacob Downing, Ezra Jones and Billy Sansom went over ye River on the ice before dinner." 1784. "July 12. This morning about 2 o'clock, our neighbor Robt Waln departed this Life, after a lingering illness, aged 63 years-second day."

1785. "May 17, Went with neighbor Waln to ye funeral of Pully Garrigues formerly Mitchell. * *

* May 20, J. Downing, and Sally Drinker, Robt Waln and Nancy Drinker, T. Morgan and Nancy Waln, B. Morris and Polly Wells, Henry Drinker and Hannah Wells, and Gideon Wells, on horseback, ye rest in chaises, went to our place at Frankford." 1793. Aug. 20, the Drinkers living then in Germantown; "Neighbor Waln and Anna Wells paid us a visit this morning-say tis very sickly in Philadelphia"- This is one of the years of the yellow-fever epidemic. Aug. 28. "P. Hartshorne's family and Neight Waln's are also out; the inhabitants are leaving the city in great numbers." Sept. 2, Neighbor Waln and Nancy Morgan came to visit us this forenoon. R.W. stays with her son Robert."

Several other notices of visits from "Negh" Waln, Tommy and Nancy Mor- gan" et al, in October, 1793.

The will of Robert Waln "of the City of Philadelphia, Merchant" signed April 6, 1782, probated July 26, 1784, devised property in several counties of Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey ; it provides for his wife Rebecca ; children, Susanna, Re- becca, Ann, Hannah and Robert; nieces, Mary Mifflin, widow, and Ann Thomas ;

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and negroes, Jack and Toney ; a bequest is given to trustees for supporting a free negro school; Rebecca Waln and his nephew, Nicholas Waln, are named as guardians for his daughter Hannah; the latter as trustee, and son-in-law, Patti- son Hartshorne, and son Robert as executors.

The will of Rebecca Waln, widow of Robert, dated Imo. 9, 1797, probated November 26, 1799, mentions her children, Susanna Hartshorne, Ann Morgan, Robert Waln and Hannah Wells; sister, Hannah Cathrall, son-in-law, Pattison Hartshorne, brother-in-law, Isaac Cathrall, and nephews and nieces, Rachel Elfreth and Edward and Hannah, children of her sister Hannah; it also makes bequests to Hannah, sister of Isaac Cathrall Sr .; Hannah Lloyd; Sarah, wife of Duncan Roberts; Rebecca Griscom; the Monthly Meeting of Friends for the Northern District of Philadelphia, for poor Friends, and to her grandson, Robert Waln Hartshorne. Her son, Robert Waln, and son-in-law, Pattison Hartshorne, are named as executors.

Issue of Robert and Rebecca (Coffin) Waln :--

SUSANNAH WALN, m. Pattison Hartshorne, of whom presently ;

Joseph Waln, b. 1754, d. April 10, 1770;

Hannah Waln, b. 1756, d. Jan. 18, 1770; (E. Drinker's Journal, has, 1770, "18th Jany., Hannah Waln died") ;

Richard Waln, m. and had one son, who was perhaps Robert Waln, Esq., who, accord- ing to Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, d. at Norristown, Dec. 24, 1827, in his 38th year ;

Ann Waln, b. about 1760, d. June 2, 1814, mentioned frequently in Elizabeth Drinker's Journal as Nancy Waln; m. Thomas Morgan; many well-known Philadelphians of the present day are descended from them, including William Moore Wharton, of 1616 Pine St., grandson of William Moore Wharton, who m. Mary, dau. of Jesse and Re- becca Waln, mentioned above; Clark W. Churchman, Waln M. Churchman, and Charles W. Churchman, of Jenkintown, various representatives of the Morgan, Draper and Rotch families et al. Among other representatives may be noted Mary Tevis Morgan, who m. Sir Francis Richard Plunkett, son of the ninth Earl Fingail, a dis- tinguished British diplomat, minister to Japan, Sweden and Belgium, etc. One of the daughters of the latter m. Count A. Fersen Gyldenstoipe, of Sweden.

A son of Thomas and Ann (Waln) Morgan, Thomas Waln Morgan, m. Feb. 10, 1814, Hannah Griffitts, a descendant of Anthony Morris, before mentioned, and a grandson of theirs, is Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, a member of the So- ciety of Colonial Wars in the State of New York, who during the war with Spain, 1898, was Captain in the Second Regiment, U. S. Vol. Engineers, stationed in Honolu- lu, and was afterwards Colonel in the Colorado National Guard;

Rebecca Waln, b. 176-, d. July 29, 1785; m. Nov. 16, 1784, Ezra Jones; Elizabeth Drinker's Journal of the latter date, has "Sally and Nancy at ye marriage of Ezra Jones and Becky Waln." Her death is also mentioned in the Journal, while Mrs. Drinker was on a trip to Walnford and Shrewsbury, 1785, August I : "John Fry, came about this time, left Philadelphia on Seventh day last; he brings us ye afflicting ac- count of the death of our neighbor Waln's daughter, Becky Jones, who we suppose died on fifth or sixth day last, as she was ill and her mammy with her, when we left home." August 10. "Received two letters; one from our son Billy-all well at home, another from Betsy Waln, giving some particulars relating to poor Becky Jones. She expired on Sixth day morning, ye 29th, and was buried the same evening." Her husband did not long survive her, dying within a year; they left no issue; his will dated 12mo. 27, 1785, probated March 22, 1786, mentioned his sisters Priscilla and Mary; his moth- er-in-law, Rebecca Waln, brother Israel, Isaiah and John; brother-in-law, Robert Waln, sisters-in-law, Susannah Hartshorne, and Ann and Hannah Waln;

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Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I, Part 30

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