Benjamin Walton and Catherine Williamson

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Husband Benjamin Walton

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           Born: After 1716
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         Father: Benjamin Walton (      -1737)
         Mother: Elizabeth (      -      )

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       Marriage: 23 Nov 1756 - Philadelphia, Pa

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Wife Catherine Williamson

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Walton

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The following, slightly reformatted to improve readability, is from Byberry Waltons (Norman Walton Swayne, 1958), pg 29:

44 BENJAMIN WALTON (4), not 21 by 1737, alive 1783, son of 6 Benjamin Walton & Elizabeth of Byberry Twp, Phila. Co., Pa., married Nov. 23, 1756 at Trinity Oxford Church, Phila., Catherine Williamson, alive 1783, apparently daughter of John Williamson, whose will, drawn Feb. 29, 1760, proved Sep. 21, 1761 in Bucks Co., named wife Elizabeth and daughter Katharine Walton. He was of Bensalem.

The History of Byberry and Moreland states this Benjamin, son of Nathaniel's son Benjamin, was a rigid Whig during the Revolution, active in his distraints upon Friends on account of military requisitions, and that he was commonly called "Black Ben," on account of his complexion and to distinguish him from another. He was listed as First Lieut in Col. McVaugh's Penna. Reg. Command May 11, 1777. The British captured him at his home Feb. 14, 1778. Benjamin was on the list of Pa. prisoners of war not exchanged before 15 Aug. 1778 together with those taken since. In 1779 he was a prisoner on Long Island, not by the rules of war then exchanged.

16 Nov. 1779 Benjamin of Byberry Twp & wife Catherine deeded to Alexander McMullin, weaver, for 800 pounds, three acres of the 100 acres patented 20 Sep. 1693 to Nathaniel Walton, part of which was deeded 27 Feb. 1734 by his exrs to Benjamin Walton, father of the present grantor, and this was part of the 150 acres then deeded. 12 May 1783 Benjamin of Byberry Twp, yeoman, & wife Catherine granted to Thomas Chappel of same for 1050 pounds in gold and silver coin 150 acres there, beginning at a post in the middle of Southampton Road which leads to Swift's Mill and at a corner of Joseph Walton, thence along the middle of the road the several courses dividing this from Joseph Walton to land late of Joseph Ellis, thence by same SE by S 176 perches to Potquesing Creek, thence down said creek the several courses to Evan Thomas, thence by same NE by N 118 perches to the beginning, subject to 100 pounds mortgage. This had been willed to the grantor by his father Benjamin 26 July 1737. While McMullin's three acres had come out of this 150 acres, it was still 150 acres, as in 1734.

Some of the tax records under 72 Benjamin may belong here. There is a possibility there was a son Nathaniel, who died 5.24. 1814. See under 155 Nathaniel, where it seems more likely he belongs. There was a Thomas Chappel, son of a Chappel & Martha Matlack, in Matlack's notes on Old Coles Church, Camden, N. J. This Martha had 1st married John Duffield and lived in Pa. half a mile from Township Line. No dates are given. This Walton who married Thomas Chappel may have been daughter of Black Ben, who deeded his land to Thomas Chappel. Also there was Elizabeth Walton, whose connections with Street, Foster, Willett and Oxford Church sound more Church of England than Quaker, which should place her among descendants of 2 Nathaniel. She is here supposed, on suspicion, daughter of 44 Benjamin:

124 Elizabeth b 1755 d 1836 m James Street b 1756 d 1828