Minister William Walton, Jr.

• an "approved minister"

http://www.englishlass.com/p27.htm#i796

http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Walton%20Family/WaltonWillia...

http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Walton%20Family/Byberry.html

William Walton was born in Byberry Parish, Gloucestershire, England about 1662. His parents were William Walton and Alice Martin.

He came to America with his three brothers. They settled in Byberry, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and were early members of the Byberry Friends Meeting.

William married Sarah Howell on April 20, 1689. Sarah was born about 1665 in Abington. Her parents were Thomas Howell and Katherine Thomas.

In 1691, at the time of the Keithian Separation, the Byberry meeting went Keithian. Nathaniel was the only one of the Walton brothers who remained. The other brothers met with those at the home of Henry English.

In 1717, William visited all the families who belonged to the Byberry Meeting.

In 1721, he went with Richard Busby to visit to Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina.

In 1723 he again visited the families of Byberry with Henry Comly.

At the time of his death on February 9, 1737, he was on the island of Tortola on a religious journey.

(remember that "12th month 1736 = February 1737 in a Quaker way of counting the months/years )

Daniel Walton, a Quaker, emigrated with his three other brothers from England circa 1683. He bought 100 acres of land outside Philadelphia in October, 1688.

The date of the arrival of the four Walton brothers in Pennsylvania and their subsequent settlement in Byberry Township has been very erroneously given by their different biographers, that date being fixed by some as early as 1675. If they had located in Byberry at that date, and taken up land there, their names would have appeared upon Holme’s Map of 1681-1690. It does not so appear, and the records show that they made their first purchases of land of Thomas Fairman (100 acres each, see Deed Book E 2–Vol. V, pp. 385-86-87-88– Philadelphia Recorder’s Office) on 10 mo. 1, 1688. They probably arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682 or 1683. These dates are indicated by a letter written by Nathaniel, the eldest of the brothers, to his youngest brother William, dated October 7, 1713, in which he reminds his brother that he had paid his passage from England and that he claimed interest on this payment for thirty years and upwards.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~buckscounty/Early...

GEDCOM Note

1. 5 in "Byberry Waltons", which contains lots of information about William.

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