Family: Jacob Shoemaker Waln / Sarah Morris (F5259720549)

• Father | Male Jacob Shoemaker Waln

  
  

  Born
  Died	UNKNOWN
  Buried
  Married	5 Aug 1804  [1]
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  Mother | Female Sarah Morris

  
  

  Born	2 Sep 1788	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  Died	18 May 1862
  Buried
  Father	Benjamin Wistar Morris | F5259720084 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Wells | F5259720084 Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S5351730433] Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Jordan, John W., LL.D., (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1932), 0806308117, 9780806308111., 58. Benjamin Wistar Morris, eldest son of Capt. Samuel and Rebecca (Wistar) Morris, born at Philadelphia, August 14, 1762, married at Market Street Meeting, Philadelphia, November 24, 1785, Mary, born at Burlington, New Jersey, September 4, 1764, daughter of Richard and Rachel (Hill) Wells, and about 1800 removed with his family from Philadelphia to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, where the town of Wellsborough was named for Mrs. Morris, and her brother Gideon H. Wells, and where they were among the earliest settlers.. Benjamin Wistar Norris died at Wellsborough, April 24, 1825, and his wife, November 6, 1819. They had issue: Samuel Wells, b. Sept. 1, 1786, d. May 25, 1847; Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1788, d. May 18, 1862, m. Aug. 5, 1804, Jacob Shoemaker Waln; Rebecca, b. Dec. 23, 1789, d. Dec. 8, 1871, m. July 11, 1810, William Cox Ellis; Richard Wells, b. Feb. 18, 1791; d. Oct. 4, 1791.