The first group include the so-called "Quaker Greggs."
*William Gregg and his wife, *Ann, immigrated in 1687 from County Waterford, Ireland to the Christiana Hundred, which later became New Castle County, Delaware. They descend on this tree to Aaron Gregg, who was not a Quaker, and who married, curiously, into another (non-Quaker) Gregg family from Virginia (descended from immigrant Samuel Gregg); from him the core tree descends to Kentucky families including the Hamiltons and the Mannens.
 Refer to Asahel Cooper's pedigree for help! |
The rest of the Pennsylvania Friends come especially from Sadsbury Friends Meeting. They are ancestors of Asahel Walker Cooper, Sr.; his family had been in America for several generations, and he has about 8 sets of immigrant ancestors. Click on the chart at the right for help! I proceed through this section, as much as sensible, in chronological order according to when folks immigrated; this therefore does not go in top-to-bottom order according to the chart.
*James Cooper was in Lancaster county by 1675. His travels are unclear, but it seems that he and his first wife Hannah came to Pennsylvania as servants, in order to gain the 50 acres of land which Penn promised to indentures. He may have traveled back and forth to England. A son of his named Calvin Cooper, by his second wife *Mary Ludwidge, married Phebe Hall, whose father Samuel Hall may or may not have been a Quaker. The question arises because Samuel's wife Anna Springer was the child of Lutheran parents, immigrants from Sweden to Delaware, and I do not know which generation was convinced; I assume Phebe was so that she could marry Calvin Cooper.
*James Dilworth and his wife *Ann Waln immigrated in 1682 on board the "Lamb." They were Quakers from the West Riding of Yorkshire and eastern Lancashire escaping persecution; they brought with them a note from Settle Monthly Meeting, which was located along the Ribble in what is now eastern Lancashire. They are documented as companions of William Penn, and lived on land he granted in Bucks County. Ann's brother Nicholas Waln, along with several other family members, immigrated on the "Lamb" with them (see the biography of his grandson, below).
*Everard Bolton and his wife *Elizabeth were received in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1682 with a certificate from Ross Monthly Meeting in Herefordshire. They settled in Cheltenham Township; 100 acres was surveyed for him there on September 10, 1683. He was apparently a prominent man in legal circles. The date of the Boltons' arrival implies that they were companions of William Penn that year, but their names don't seem to appear on arrival lists. Their son Samuel married Jennet Dilworth, daughter of James and Ann Dilworth.
*Lewis Walker immigrated in 1687 from Redstone Meeting in Pembrokeshire, Wales to Radnor, in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. At Haverford Friends' Meeting, on April (2nd mo.) 22, 1693 he married *Mary Morris, from England, who is said to have crossed the ocean in the same ship with him. He later moved to Tredyfferin Township in Chester County where he built a home he named "Rehobeth."
*Edward Jarman immigrated from Wales to Philadelphia by 1703; his wife is unknown. His daughter Sarah married Isaac Walker, son of the immigrant Lewis.
*Andrew Moore married *Margaret Wilson in Ireland in 1715, and immigrated by 1724, when he was one of several men who petitioned for the foundation of Sadsbury Friends' Meeting in the south-eastern edge of Lancaster County.
The movement of families to Sadsbury Meeting brings them together on this tree. Andrew's son James Moore married Anne Starr, daughter of *Jeremiah Starr and his wife *Rebecca Jackson. This couple had immigrated in about 1717 from County Meath in Northern Ireland to London Grove Township in Chester County. Anne Starr and James Moore married at London Grove, but their children appear in the Sadsbury Meeting records, indicating that they had moved further west.
*Richard Truman married *Martha Bayley at Chippenham Meeting in Wiltshire, England. They immigrated in about 1715 to settle first in what is now Montgomery County, where they attended Abington Meeting. Their son Thomas married Ann Bolton, daughter of Samuel and Jennet (above), moved westward to settle in Sadsbury Township in 1751. Thomas's daughter Susanna Truman married George Cooper; they were grandparents of Asahel Walker Cooper, the migrant to New Orleans.
Some of Emma Malinda Lansdale's ancestors
married here, at Birmingham Meeting.
Note the two pairs of doors to separate
men from women, who sat separately inside.Finally, a grand-daughter of Andrew and Margaret, Ann Moore, married Lewis Walker's grandson, Asahel Walker, in 1769 at the Sadsbury Meeting House. Asahel and Ann's daughter, Sarah Walker, married George Cooper, Jr. in 1805, who were the parents of Asahel Walker Cooper. Asahel was a carpenter bound out to learn his trade in Philadelphia, where he became interested in business and moved to New Orleans. He seems, however, to have kept contact with his home.
What of Pennsylvania Quaker families outside of these core trees? One especially appears:
The ancestors of Emma Malinda (Woodward) Lansdale were Quakers from Chester Co., Pennsylvania. If you travel back far enough along the Harlan line, her family intermarries with the Quaker Greggs here. Her parents and grandparents generations exhibit some examples of Quaker intermarriage. (She is not, despite her name, related to John Lansdale Jr., but appears on the other Maryland Lansdale tree on the site; see the Maryland Mysteries page for more about the difference . . . .)
Here are two sources about Quaker history from Pennsylvania and Delaware which I include here because they may not be familiar.
"Nicholas Waln." This is a brief biography of one a notable Waln descendant taken from Quaker Biographies (Society of Friends, 1914), vol. 4. This Nicholas lived from 1742-1813.