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Subject: [ANDERSON-L] Walker/Anderson
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 13:12:39 EDT


The following information came from "Colonial & Revolutionary Families of
Pennsylvania" from the chapter entitled "FISHER" - can anyone tell me
anything more about any of the persons mentioned? Thanks - Kay

Reese Thomas, eldest son of William and Elizabeth (Harry) Thomas,
inherited his father's homestead, and erected the old "Mansion House",
which
was occupied by his son, William Penn Thomas, until his death in 1840,
and
then passed to the latter's daughter, Jane Cleaver. Reese Thomas
married, Nov
3, 1758, Priscilla Jarman, or Jermon, as the name is sometimes spelled,
only
daughter and heiress of John and Mary Jarman, of Radnor township, and
granddaughter of John Jarman, of Llangerigg, Montgomeryshire, Wales, who
with
his wife Margaret brought a certificate dated July 20, 1685, from the
Friends
Meeting in Radnorshire, which they deposited at Haverford Meeting. His
son
John, the father of Priscilla, was born in Walker, Nov 12, 1684. His
daughter
Elizabeth, born in 1687, became the wife of James Anderson and the
mother of
Major Patrick Anderson before mentioned, and his youngest daughter
Sarah, born
Feb 14, 1695-96, married Thomas Thomas. Edward Jarman, of Philadelphia,
the
father of Sarah, wife of Isaac Walker, hereafter mention, was probably
also a
son of John and Margaret. Sarah (Jarman) Thomas died July 6, 1769, and
her
husband, Reese Thomas, did not long survive her, dying in his
forty-fifth
year.
They had seven children: Mary, married Anthony Tunis, a descendant
of
one of the German pioneers of Germantown; William, of whom presently;
John,
who died without issue; Hannah, who lived to old age with her brother
William
on the homestead; Priscilla, who died unmarried; Reese and Jonathan, who
removed to Kentucky while it was yet a wilderness and reared families
there.
William Thomas, the father of Sarah (Thomas) Anderson, and the
maternal
great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the second child
and
eldest son of Reese and Priscilla (Jarman) Thomas, and was born in the
old
Thomas "Mansion House" erected by his father, July 8, 1762, and lived
there
all his life. He married, Apr 5, 1786, Naomi Walker, born Feb 17, 1765,
died
May 4, 1817, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Thomas) Walker, granddaughter
of
Isaac and Sarah (Jarman) Walker, and great-granddaughter of Lewis
Walker, who
had come from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1687, and settled first in
Radnor
township, but removed to Tredyffrin township, Chester county, where he
purchased a plantation which he named "Rehoboth", and erected the first
house
thereon, in which the earliest Friends Meetings of that section were
held, by
a dispensation from Haverford Meeting of which Lewis Walker was long an
elder.
Here Lewis Walker died in the winter of 1728-29, his will dated Dec 14,
1728,
being proven Jan 24, 1728-29. He had married at Haverford Meeting, Apr
27,
1693, Mary Morris, a native of Walker, who is said to have crossed the
ocean
in the same ship with him. She survived him and died at "Rehoboth" in
1747.

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