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About Lewis Walker
Lewis was a follower of George Fox, the Quaker, and was disowned by his relatives and deprived of government honors; or as said by some one at the time, "he laid down these honors conferred by the government" Source Biographic Annals of Lancaster County Volume I
a note on Redstone: Redstone is the name of Quaker Meeting in Wales: see: Parish of Llanvihangel Helygen, Radnorshire, Wales ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/20085640?seq=2 )
Came Originally from the Border of Scotland. Bet. 1684 - 1687, Came to PA from Merioneth in Wales. Settled in Phila, then Valley Forge. Donated ground for a Quaker meeting-house & cemetery. Erected first stone residence at Valley Forge. Purchased 1,000 acres from William Penn. Residence later used by George Washington during Revolutionary War. Residence:"Rehobeth" Chester Valley Tredyffrin Twp. Religion: Society of Friends. Buried in Valley Friends Cemetery, Wayne, PA.
https://tehistory.org/hqda/html/v22/v22n1p017.html mentioned and on map
towards the end of his life: Visited by the Quaker luminary Thomas Chalkley (page 247, Diary of Thomas Chalkley)
- He and one other laid out Swedesford Road
Lewis Walker's Timeline
1656 |
1656
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Redstone, Pembrokeshire, or, Merionethshire, Wales
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1694 |
April 26, 1694
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Radnor, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
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1696 |
August 7, 1696
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Radnor, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania
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1699 |
November 15, 1699
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Philadelphia County, Province of Pennsylvania
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1701 |
April 3, 1701
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1701
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Radnor, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
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1703 |
September 17, 1703
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Radnor Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania
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1705 |
March 7, 1705
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Dating via Quaker Calendar, ..................., .................., Radnor, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1707
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