John Pawling, Jr.

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA. DAR Ancestor # A207359

PAWLING, JOHN Ancestor #: A207359 Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 8-28-1722 Death: 10-23-1789 PERKIOMEN AND SKIPPACK TWP MONTGOMERY CO PENNSYLVANIA Service Source: PA ARCH, 3RD SER, VOL 14, PP 680, 682 Service Description: 1) PAID SUPPLY TAX, 1779

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John Pawling, a resident of Skippack and Perkiomen Township, was a vestryman at St. James’ Church in Evansburg for many years, but then he became active with Augustus Lutheran Church. The Trappe Church records show that on October 6, 1745, the day of the dedication of the church, John Pawling sent his three Negro slaves, Johannes, Jacob, and Thomas, to be baptized by Muhlenberg. Pastors Brunholtz, Wagner, and Newberger were their sponsors.

The Trappe records also include the baptism of Margreth, daughter of Robert and Anna (John Pawling’s niger), born August 28, baptized September 20, 1761; and the baptism of Robert, son of Robert and Anna (John Pawling’s niger), born December 1, 1785, baptized April 8, 1759; and Francis or Frank, born October 17, 1777; baptized January 9, 1778..

Muhlenberg mused in his journal about these baptisms. On January 9, 1778, a Friday afternoon, “Squire Bull’s negress came and asked to have her child baptized. Her husband was formerly with John Pawling and later came to His Excellence Gen. Bull. I have for a long time been baptizing children for these two Negroes, but can find only three in the church book. His name is Robert Mark, and his wife’s is Anna Margretha.”

When John Pawling died in 1792, his will stipulated that his Negro boys George and Robin were to be freed at 21 years of age.

John Pawling’s son Joseph was active at Augustus Lutheran until Slator Clay became rector at St. James’. At the time of his death Joseph’s inventory included four slaves: Phillis, Peter, Anthony Mix, and Pegg, valued at $205. Frederick Conrad’s Docket includes the entry that on August 10, 1792, “Negro Phillis, aged about one year and eleven months, a child abandoned by her late master, Joseph Pawling, dec’d, was bound by Jacob Horning and Jacob Reiff, Overseers of the Poor of Perkiomen, to Lewis Truckenmiller, his heirs and assignees, for the term of sixteen years, to be instructed in housekeeping and be taught to read intelligibly and have customary freedom due.”