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- If his mother Sarah Jarman is indeed related to Sarah Jarman his wife's mother, then they are closely related; but note that Edward Jarman, this Joseph Walker's grandmother, is only POSSIBLY a son of John Jarman the immigrant.
"Joseph Walker, the eldest of the eleven children of Isaac and Sarah (Jarman) Walker, was born at "Rehoboth," July 25, 1731. He acquired the homestead on the remarriage of his mother and resided there the remainder of his life, dying there November 1, 1818, having been totally blind for several years prior to that date. He married (first) in 1752, Sarah Thomas, born May 25, 1734, died March 12, 1792, daughter of Thomas Thomas, born May 12, 1690, died July 13, 1744, and his wife, Sarah Jarman, born February 14, 1695-96, daughter of John and Margaret Jarman, the Welsh emigrants of 1685, before mentioned, and granddaughter of William and Elizabeth Thomas, also of Welsh ancestry, who were early settlers at Newton, Chester, (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania.
"Rehoboth," the home of Joseph and Sarah (Thomas) Walker, was for six months the headquarters of General Anthony Wayne, while Washington's army was encamped at the historic Valley Forge, located only a few miles distant, and General Lafayette and Washington himself were frequent visitors there. Joseph Walker and his wife were conscientious and consistent members of the Society of Friends, and, while he was a man of affairs in the community in which he lived, he refrained from taking any part in the sanguinary struggle, though contributing to the best of his ability to the relief of those suffering privations by reason thereof, without reference to party, sect or nationality. He suffered considerably from the depredations of the soldiers until given a guard to protect his property.
Mary (Thomas) Jones, of Wynnewood, writing in 1829 of the life of her grandparents, Joseph and Sarah (Thomas) Walker, at "Rehoboth" during the Revolutionary period says: ‘I have heard many testify in an uncommon manner of the affectionate and grateful remembrance they had of the noble and generous acts of kindness and hospitality extended by my dear grandfather to themselves and others during the Revolutionary War, and since. They, being members of the Society of Friends, whose principles would not permit my grandfather to take an active part, either offensive or defensive in the struggle of that time, therefore united their efforts to do all in their power to relieve those that were in trouble or distress, without respect to person or party, and many were the opportunities for the exercise of the law of kindness and acts of charity to the poor half clad and shivering soldiers as well as private individuals, General Wayne having chosen their house for his headquarters for six months during the winter that Washington had his army at Valley Forge which was but a few miles from my grandfather's dwelling. They were of course surrounded by the American Army and consequently witnessed a great portion of the distress and suffering of that eventful period.'
Joseph Walker married (second) in his old age, Jane, widow of William Rankin." [4]
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