Nicholas Waln

Birth

1. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania

   209, Nicholas Waln, eldest son of Richard and Anne (Heath) Waln, was born March 19, 1709-10, died in August, 1744, having been born and passed most of his life on the old Waln estate in the Northern Liberties, which he inherited; though in later years he resided in the city proper. Nicholas Waln married May 23, 1734, under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Mary, daughter of George and Rebecca (Dilworth) Shoemaker. She was a distant cousin to her husband, her mother, Rebecca (Dilworth) Shoemaker, being the youngest daughter of James Dilworth by his Wife Ann Waln, sister to Nicholas Waln, emigrant, grandfather of the Nicholas Waln now under consideration. After her husband's death, Mary (Shoemaker) Waln resided on his Northern Liberties property and died there in 1756. Issue of Nicholas and Mary (Shoemaker) Waln: Ann Waln, eldest child, d. unm.; Richard Waln, b. about 1737, m. Elizabeth Armitt; Rebecca Waln, m. Abraham Howell. Their only child who survived infancy, Mary Howell, m. Henry Drinker, eldest child of John and Rachel (Rynear) Drinker, and nephew of Henry Drinker, whose wife was Elizabeth Drinker, the diarist. His father, John Drinker, was one of the most acitve of the Quakers in opposing the Revolution, on religious grounds. Henry and Mary (Howell) Drinker had five children: (John; Henry Waln; Rebecca; Richard; William Waln); Nicholas Waln, b. Nov. 14, 1742, m. Sarah Richardson.