John Vickers (1780 - 1860)

Born 8 Aug 1780 in East Caln, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Paxson) Vickers — married 6 Oct 1803 in Sadsbury Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Apr 1860 at age 79 in Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Descendant of Thomas and Joan Mildenhall.

JOHN VICKERS. (Born Eighth mo., (Aug.) 8th, 1780.— Died Fourth mo., (Apr.) 28th, 1860.)

• John Vickers was born of Quaker parentage, in Caln township, 8th mo., (Aug.) 8th, 1780. His father, Thomas Vickers, was a prominent abolitionist, and one of the earliest and most active agents on the Underground Railroad. He was one of the original members of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, formed in Philadelphia in 1777 with Isaac T. Hopper, Anthony Benezet and others, of which Benjamin Franklin was the first President.
• His grandfather, Thomas Vickers, was an earnest and indefatigable laborer in the Friends' Ministry, and traveled much in his religious calling. It was around the hearthstone of home, from his earliest youth, that John Vickers, whose name was afterwards known throughout North and South, as one of the most active, cautious, conscientious, and skillful managers of the " Underground " transit of the bondman to liberty, learned a deep sympathy for the wrongs and oppressions of the enslaved negro.
• In 1803 he married Abigail Paxson and remained on the place in partnership with his father in the manufacture of pottery; they having an extensive reputation for their superior skill in making a fine variety of ware. In 1813 he purchased a farm in Whiteland, erected pottery buildings and carried on the business until 1823, when he purchased a property in Uwchlan, near Lionville, where he continued the manufacturing of ware until his death, when he was succeeded by his son, Paxson.
• In his domestic life he was devotedly attached to his family. Their physical comfort, moral and intellectual culture, and spiritual growth were a part of his daily thoughts and care. The regular family reading of the scriptures, when all were collected around the table for that purpose, was not the cold formality* of a religious duty, but a season of true, sincere enjoyment in which he felt the warm flow of a devoted, cheerful, religious spirit.
• In business transactions, or in the social sphere, he was wholly unselfish, ever considering what Vould advance the practical welfare and conduce to the happiness of others. In the words of Charles G. Ames, in a eulogy upon President Garfield, " He never shoved another aside that he might have the better place, nor sought to secure for himself emolulents, or gains in any thing, to which strict justice to others did not entitle him." " For other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise."^[1][2]

Census

1850 Eagle, Upper Uwchlan Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States^[5]

Sources

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2. ↑ Smedley, Robert Clemens, 1832-1883. History of the Underground Railroad In Chester And the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968.
3. ↑ "Pennsylvania Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CTRS-7VPZ : 8 April 2020), John Vickers, 1860.
4. ↑ "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8TXH-TGZM : 1 October 2020), John Vickers, .
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4H9-PHK : 21 December 2020), John Vickers, Eagle, Upper Uwchlan Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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