Person:Mary Waln (1)

Personal History

Mary Walln(e), daughter of Nicholas Walln by his wife Jane (Turner), was born 17 2mo. [April] 1687, in Bucks co., Province of Pennsylvania.^[1]

At the Chester monthly meeting, held in Delaware Co., Province of Pennsylvania, John Simcock appeared firstly 28 11mo. [Jan.], and secondly 25 12mo. [Feb.] 1705[/6], to declare his intention of marriage with Mary Walne, daughter of Nicholas Walne of Philadelphia County, and to obtain a certificate. At the Philadelphia monthly meeting, on 29 1mo. [March] 1706, John Simcock and Mary Waln first declared their intentions of marriage with their parents present and giving their consent. Final consent was given at the monthly meeting on 26 2mo. [April] 1706, when they declared their intentions for the second time.

Mary Simcock, aged 84 years, died 19 5mo. [May] 1771, (Kingwood MM) in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey.^[2]

Profiles

• “Biographical Sketches: Mary Simcock.” The Friend. A religious and literary journal. (Philadelphia: John Richardson) 35 (1862): 156.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Society of Friends. Bucks Quarterly Meeting (Bucks, Pennsylvania). “Record of Births and Burials, 1680”, in U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2014)
   image 8 (of 34); cites Swarthmore records RG2/Ph/B86 3.2.

   (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2189/31905_1220706242_0049-00008 : accessed 31 March 2017)
   
   “Mary y^e Daughter of Nicholas & Jane Waln Borne y^e 17^th. day of y^e second month 1687.”

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Society of Friends. Quakertown Monthly Meeting (Hunterdon, New Jersey). “Minutes, 1744–1877”, in U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2014)
   image 131 (of 138); cites Haverford records.

   (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2189/40525_1821100519_2800-00132 : accessed 3 April 2017)
   
   “Kingwoods Monthly Meetings Testimony Concerning Mary Simcock. This our antient Friend during the time she resided amongst us, which was upwards of Thirty Years, was a diligent attender of Meetings. … She had also a Gift in the Ministery &c.
   “A brief Memorial written by her husband John Simcock which is annexed States that
   “She was Daughter of Nicholas and Jane Waln of the Northern Liberties of the City of Philadelphia. … She was patient in affliction of Body or Mind, and Departed quietly without any apparent illness, 19^th of the 5^th month 1771, in the Eighty fifth year of her age, a Minister upwards of fifty years.”