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Asahel Jerman Walker (1746 - 1838)

Asahel Jerman Walker
Born in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvaniamap
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Husband of — married 20 Jul 1769 [location unknown]
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Died at age 92 in Sadsbury Twp, Lancaster County, PAmap
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Asahel was born in 2nd month, 10th, 1746 at "Rehobeth", Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, PA, and died 8th month, 5th, 1838 at his home in Sadsbury, Lancaster County, PA. Asahel Walker married 7th month, 20th, 1769, Ann, daughter of James and Ann Starr Moore of Sadsbury. She was born in 1751 and died 1825. Her mother was a daughter of Jeremiah Starr of Chester County. Asahel Walker, in 1768 releases all his rights to his father's estates to his brother Joseph for 100 pounds. In this paper he calls himself, "Asahel Walker of Tredyffrin, in the county of Chester, Province of Pennsylvania, millwright." On the 4th mo 9th 1771, he along with his wife ans son James, removes his certificate from Merion Monthly Meeting to Warrington, York County, PA. The next move is on 1st month 11th, 1788, when "Asahel Wlker, wife and children, Ann, Isaac, Mary, Sarah and Asahel, remove their certificate to Sadsbury."(Radnor Records) Mr. Harris, in his "Biographical History of Lancaster County" gives a short Account of Asahel Walker which I insert here: Asahel Walker, of Sadsbury Township, was born in Valley Forge in the year 1746. He was the son of Isaac and the grandson of Lewis Walker, who emigrated from the Principality of Wales about the year 1700, and purchased a large tract of land from William Penn, at the Valley Forge, where, it is said, William Penn visited him the following year. He erected a commodious stone edifice theron, at which a meeting of the Society of Friends was established in the year 1713...Although it has undergone repairs, it is standing as a part of the family mansion at the present time 1872. (I saw it before it was demolished in 1981 or 1982-vwp)The land is now divided into about ten farms, and is still held by his descendants. His grandson Asahel Walker was united in marriage with Ann, the daughter of the well-known James Moore of Sadsbury, in the year 1769. He afterwards purchased a tract of land in Sadsbury, which had belonged to his father-in-law, and which had been taken up by William Penn in the year 1700, while on his visit at the Gap and which he had surveyed off for his own use. At the age of sixty six years he divided his land between his sons Isaac and Asahel, which is now owned and occupied by his grandsons Isaac and Asahel C. Walker. After thus adjusting his temporal matters, he retired from the cares of the world, and spent the remainder of his life (over a quarter of a century) in promoting the cause of his Divine Master, and became a worthy minister of the Gospel Truths in the Society of Friends. During no period of his life did he seek public distinction, yet he had charge of various important public and private trusts form members of different religious persuasions. During his whole life he was truly a worthy and faithful member of society, so that he may be classed with the good and remembered with the just. He departed his well spent life in the year 1838 in the 93rd year of his age. His descendents are numerous and respectable; beseides the Walkers, are included some of the Moores, Pownalls, Coopers, Linvilles, Ellmakers, Dillers, Worsts and Hersheys, Mrs Percy Barnard, Mrs Mary L. Roberts of Texas, the Sprouls, Houstons, and some of that excellant and respectable family of the Trouts of the Township of Bart. [1]

Asahel passed away in 1838, and was buried at Sadsbury Friends Burial Ground, Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

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  • Streets, Priscilla Walke, "Lewis Walker of Chester Valley."
  • See the Changes page for the details of edits by Valerie Peery and others.
  1. Entered by Valerie Peery, Oct 29, 2011






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