John (Cadwallender) Cadwallader (1699 - 1755)

Born 5 Jan 1699 in Radnor Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Cadwallader — married 1720 in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1755 at age 56 in Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Birth

John Cadwallader, Jr. appears to be the one born at Radnor Township in Chester County on 5 January (or March?) 1699/1700, son of John Cadwallader and Sarah Roberts.^[1]

Marriage

John Cadwallader, Jr. is said to have wed Mary. It is probable that Mary was not a Quaker, for he married "out of meeting," but was later reinstated.

Children

John Cadwallader, Jr. and Mary are said to have had six children, of whom these five are known:^[2]

1. Moses Cadwallader, born about 1730; married Elizabeth Malin.
2. James Cadwallader.
3. Charles Cadwallader.
4. John Cadwallader.
5. May Cadwallader

Life

After the birth of John Cadwallader, Jr., within a very few years, the family moved northwestward to Goshen and then Uwchlan Townships. There John Cadwallader, Jr., certainly grew up as part of a tightly-knit and zealous ethnic-religious community.

John Cadwallader, Jr. is believed to have been one of the traveling Quaker ministers. Such ministers usually traveled with a companion, and one Zebulon Heston was at least on occasion John's partner. In 1746 they visited meetings in Virginia, an experience that may have paved the way for future family migration southward.^[3]

Death

John Cadwallader, Jr., is said to have died December 15, 1755.^[4] In the record of Moses' 1756 marriage Moses is referred to as the son of John, "late of Vincent, deceased."^[5] Vincent is the township bordering Uwchlan on the northeast; whether John moved into this township in his last years or the borders were redrawn to take in his property is not known.

Sources

1. ↑ The confusion rests on the three dates given in the Radnor MM Minutes: 11.5.1699 (the only reference to Sarah as the mother) and 1.5.1699 (only father's name given), both from Radnor Monthly Meeting Delaware Co., Pa: 1680-1733 (Collections of The Genealogical Society of Pa, Vol. 132, De 15F:2), pp. 15 and 12; and "5 day of the 1st month Ano 1699" (only father's name given) from Records of Radnor Monthly Meeting: 1680-1788 (The Genealogical Society of Pa, De 15F:1), p. 482 (both records at the Pa Historical Society). Transferring to New Style, John's birth date would be either January 5 or March 5, 1700. The research suggests it is the former because January is more likely to have been rendered as both (rightly) the eleventh month and (mistakenly) the first month.
2. ↑ The figure six is from a letter from Rawlins Cadwallader, October 2, 1926. The names are from the Aitkens-Cadwallader Bible.
3. ↑ Hargrave, Harry S. Brief History of Quakers in England and Virginia and the Hargrave Family, 1634-1939 (Los Angeles: 1939).
4. ↑ Aitkens-Cadwallader Bible. Hargrave has only the year 1755.
5. ↑ Goshen Monthly Meeting Chester County, Pennsylvania: Marriages, 1722-1787 (Pennsylvania Historical Society), p. 22.