Isaac Walker

When Isaac married Sarah 9/11/1730, they lived with his mother Mary at Rehobeth until her death, in 1747, when Isaac inherited the estate.

Isaac, the 7th child, inherited Rehobeth in 1747. Lewis & Mary’s 7th child: Isaac Walker born March (1st mo) 7, 1705, perhaps at Rehobeth, family home in Valley Forge; the youngest son, he leased the homestead in 1736; inherited it in 1747.

Died April (2nd mo) 23, 1755 (p. 54)

Married Nov (9th mo) 11, 1730 (p. 53) to Sarah Jerman born Oct (8th mo) 25, 1713 (p. 52) died April 26, 1802 (p. 60); 3rd child of Edward and Elizabeth Jerman of Philadelphia;

Isaac and Sarah and their 11 children (5 died young) lived at Rehobeth (pp. 52-61) with his mother Mary who died in 1747; Her will was probated on the 19th day of March, 1747 (her will was probated Mar 19, 1747, pp. 31, 35). She is buried by the side of her husband Lewis Walker (166-1728) at the Valley Friends Meeting Burial Grounds: Lewis Walker donated the land (slightly more than half an acre) for the Valley Friends Meetinghouse and burial ground. The Valley Friends Meeting still meets there in 2019.

Isaac died young at 50 in 1755; his oldest son Joseph, living at Many Springs, inherited Rehobeth where Sarah remained after Isaac’s death until she was married again to Jacob Thomas, in 1759. The two youngest children, Abel (8) and Leah (4), moved with her to live with Jacob in Willistown; Sarah died in 1802. Joseph Walker born July (5th mo) 25, 1731, oldest child of 11, paid siblings for their inherited land, and thus owned the original tract of his father Isaac, bequeathed to Isaac by Lewis Walker. (p. 60) Lewis owned 1000 acres (purchased from William Penn, beginning in 1702) and built the first stone residence at Valley Forge, by 1705, calling it Rehobeth.

“These early meetings of Friends in the Valley were held in the homes of Lewis Walker and Joseph Richardson. Meetings for Worship were held on both the first day of the week and mid-week. Lewis Walker, one of the earliest settlers in Tredyffrin, and one of the founding members of this Meeting, left to Friends in the Valley the property on which his family burial ground was located, now the burial grounds of Valley Meeting. Over the years, this small piece of property was added to at different times until now the Meeting grounds span both sides of Old Eagle School Road. In 1731, a meetinghouse, probably made of logs, was erected in the northeast corner of the present Burial Grounds.” https://www.valleymeeting.org/history

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