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From: "Howard W. Burdett" <>
Subject: Re: [ANDERSON-L] Walker/Anderson
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 14:03:53 -0400
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I would have said that the James Anderson and Elizabeth Jarman (Jerman)
referred to below were the grandparents of the Andersons who were early
settlers of western VA and southeastern OH, however, the research I did on
this family in Chester County, PA led me to believe the parents of this
Elizabeth were Thomas and Elizabeth Jarman (Jerman) not John and Margaret.
Perhaps others can help clear this up.

Howard


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Subject: [ANDERSON-L] Walker/Anderson


> 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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