John Foulke (1722 - 1787)

Born 21 Feb 1722 in Province of Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Roberts) Foulke — married 14 Oct 1755 in Richland Monthly Meeting

Descendants

Died 25 May 1787 at age 65 in Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

"Jn' Foulke Born 12. mo. 21. day 1722" (21 Feb, 1722). His birth is recorded at the Gwynedd Meeting^[1] and the Richland, Meeting.^[2] John was born in Gwynedd, which was part of Philadelphia County until 1784, when it became Montgomery County, or Richland, part of Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania.

John was a member of the Richland Monthly Meeting of Friends. 8th month of 1752, John Foulke went on a trading voyage to Barbadoes. He was granted a certificate to meetings in Barbadoes. When he returned, in 1654, he brought with him a certificate from Bridgetown, Barbadoes, giving an account of his good conduct there.^[3]

John married 10-14-1755 (14 Oct 1755) at the Richland Mo. Mtg. Mary Roberts.^[3]

He kept a "Book of Register for ye purpose of Recording Births and Burials" beginning 20 Nov 1755. He was on committees of the meeting and was name Elder in 1762. He represented the Meeting of Ministers and Elders at Quarterly Meeting in 1762m, 1764, and almost continuously between 1767 and 1778. 5th mo. 20, 1762, he was appointed to build an "apartment of stone at the North end of the Meeting House 26 by 40 feet within." And in 1766, the meeting appointed him to transcribe the certificates of marriage etc. He was also made a trustee of the "Bolton lot" site of the first meeting house.^[3]

He was a member of the Province of Pennsylvania Assembly representing Bucks County from 1769-1775.^[3]

John was a smith. He died 25 May 1787.^[3]

Children:^[3]

1. Martha b 1758
2. Edward (twin b. 1758)
3. Anne b 1760
4. Jane b 1763
5. Aquila b 1766
6. Margaret b. 1768
7. Evan b 1771
8. Lydia b 1775

Sources

1. ↑ Monthly Meeting : Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (En-Z) Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Hinshaw, William Wade. William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
2. ↑ This page - is a compiled list of the births of the Foulke Family, it was done in the same hand, and probably at the same time, includes parents and children, and is part of the Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Richland Monthly Meeting Minutes, Births and Deaths, 1750-1805. Part of : U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Cites as Original data for the entire collection: Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.Indiana Yearly Meeting Minutes. Earlham College Friends Collection & College Archives, Richmond, Indiana.Haverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. Located at Ancestry.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Roberts, Clarence, V. Ancestry of Clarence V. Roberts & Frances A. (Walton) Roberts; comprising a chart and sketches of some fifty-six ancestral families who settled mostly in or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Published by the compiler, Clarence V. Roberts, 1940. starting at bottom of page 93