John William

d. 1736
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
     John William married Catherine Griffith, widow of Morris Cadwaladr and Alexander Edwards, daughter of Griffith ap Evan, 12 3m 1714 (12 May 1714) in Haverford Monthly Meeting, Gwynedd, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.1,2 He died in 1736.3 His will was proved on 26 7m 1736 (26 September 1736) in Montgomery, Philadelphia County (now Montgomery), Pennsylvania.3
     
Additional Data
John William was among the Friends (Quakers) who united in 1709/10 to raise money to build a new meeting house at Gwynedd, to replace the original log meeting house built in 1700. He signed the subscription paper dated "the sixth day of the first monthy in the year one thousand seven hundred and nine-ten," pledging £4 10s payable in four installments. The stone structure, completed in 1712, was torn down and a new one was built on the same site in 1823. The stone steps are all that remains of the 1712 meeting house.4

John William witnessed the marriage of Cadwalader Morris and Elizabeth Morgan on 24 3m 1710 (24 May 1710) in Gwynedd Meeting House, Gwynedd, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.5,2 Click to view image

John William, yeoman, made his will on 3 7m 1735 (3 September 1735) in Montgomery, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He bequeathed to: Wife: Catherine. Children: William, Ann Foulk and Theopholus. Son-in-Law: Hugh Foulk. Exec: Catherine, William and Theopholus William and Hugh Foulk. Preparative meeting at Gwynedd for Poor People. Grandchildren: Children of sons William and Theopholus, and daughter Ann Foulk. Overseers: John Jones, Cadwalader Evans, George Lewis and William Morgan.3

Citations

  1. [S360] Edwards-William marriage, 12th day of the 3rd month anno 1714, in Minutes of the Haverford Monthly Meeting, unpaginated, arranged by date, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
  2. [S356] Howard Malcolm Jenkins, Historical collections relating to Gwynedd, a township of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, settled, 1696, by immigrants from Wales, with some data referring to the adjoining township, of Montgomery, also settled by Welsh (Philadelphia: Howard Malcolm Jenkins, 1897), Chapter 12, online. <http://www.gwyneddfriends.org/jenkinschapter12.htm
  3. [S361] Inc. Lineages, comp., Philadelphia County Wills, 1682-1819 (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1900; reprint <http://www.ancestry.com>: Ancestry.com, 2000), citing E: 377.
  4. [S356] Howard Malcolm Jenkins, Historical collections relating to Gwynedd, Chapter 9, online <http://www.gwyneddfriends.org/jenkinschapter9.htm>, Chapter 28, online. <http://www.gwyneddfriends.org/jenkinschapter28.htm
  5. [S357] Morgan-Morris marriage, 24th day of the 3 month 1710, in Minutes of the Haverford Monthly Meeting, unpaginated, arranged by date, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.