Mary Walker

"Lewis Walker married Mary Morris, whom he had met during the voyage, at Haverford meeting house in February 1693. They lived for several years in Radnor, and many of their children were born there. However, on one of his hunting trips, Lewis Walker saw a densely wooded hill, beyond which was a pleasant valley with plenty of water and fertile soil. The Schuylkill was close at hand so that harvests could be floated to city markets. He bought a farm in the Great Valley and the family moved there, though Mary Walker was reluctant to leave the security of Radnor for the remote wilderness that was to be their home. Lewis Walker is considered to be the first settler of Tredyffrin township. The name is Welsh --Tre or Tref (town) and Dyffrin or Duffryn (a wide valley). In old writings, the township was sometimes called Valleytown or Valleyton; the latter name appears in a Deed by which Lewis Walker later conveyed some of his land to Llewellyn Davis in 1708.

The first Walker house was made of logs. After it burned, a stone house replaced it, and the property was named "Rehobeth". The house was built near one of the many springs on the property, high on a sunny slope where walnut and sycamore trees grew. It was an unusually large dwelling, well-suited for holding meetings. One of the lower rooms was divided by a movable partition so that the men and women of the Meeting could hold their separate monthly meetings for business.

As the Walker's eight children grew and married, nearly all of them lived on farms near Rehobeth. Married children of other Friends in the Valley also lived on land given or bequeathed to them by their parents. It was extremely important to Pennsylvania Friends to acquire as much land as possible."

The Walker tract in Tredyffrin can be seen on this > interactive map

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Lewis was 6’4” and met Mary on the voyage to PA. died Dec 23, 1728, at Rehobeth (p. 21) (geni.com says he died Dec 14, 1728, but this was the date he signed his will and Dec 23 is engraved on his grave marker in the Valley Meeting burial ground.) married April 22, 1693, Haverford Meetinghouse, to Mary Morris, born 1667, died 1747, (her will was probated Mar 19, 1747, pp. 31, 35). They moved from Radnor to Chester Valley, the 1st settlers in Tredyffrin township, in 1705; 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.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109104062/mary-walker

Mary's executor was her son Daniel: Priscilla Walker Streets. Lewis Walker of Chester Valley and his Descendants