Person:Daniel Walton (8)

RESEARCH: Together with Joseph Hunt, of Stratford-upon-Avon, and William Hunt, of Radway, all of the county of Warwick, he purchased of Edward Billynge, of London, by deeds of lease and release, dated 9 mo. 22 and 23, 1682, a one-tenth share of the Proprietary of West Jersey, and by virtue of this deed a tract of land was laid out to him in Gloucester County, New Jersey.

His grandchildren and those of his brother, William intermarried.

ARRIVAL:
1) Communication from Benjamin Kite to Robert Vaux (abt 1730): within the limits of Byberry in the year 1675 (7 years before Penn came to America).
2) They landed in New Castle, Delaware, prior to 1682 and probably arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682 or 1683.
3) Letter written by Nathaniel, the eldest of the brothers, to his youngest brother, William, dated October 7, 1713, in which he reminds his brother that he had paid his passage from England and that he claimed interest on this payment for thirty years and upwards.

!LAND: Made first purchases of land of Thomas Fairman (100 acres each brother, see "Deed Book," E2,Vol. V, pp. 385-86-87-88, Philadelphia Recorder's Office) on 10 mo. 1, 1688.

QUAKER: "In 1694, Daniel Walton and John Carver bought of Henry English of Byberry an acre of land upon which the Quakers built a Meeting House and established a burial ground." letter dated May 6, 1901 written by Edwin MacMinn to Mr. Walton (now at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania). From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

1.   John W. Jordan, LL.D. Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania; Genealogical and Personal Memoirs. (The Lewis Publishing Company (NY, Chic.) 1911).