Henry Pawling

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Husband Henry Pawling ¹

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1 M Henry Pawling ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Pawling

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The pioneer of this family in America, he came from England in 1701. He purchased two tracts of land, of a thousand acres each, from William Penn before leaving England. On the map of 1683, he is shown as holding two lots in Philadelphia, one on Market street and the other on the Schuylkill front. [CBRCP-CCUS, 873]

The Pawlings settled first in Lower Providence township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and later in Montgomery County on the Schuylkill river, near Pawling's Bridge. In 1734, Henry Pawling, Sr., owned five hundred acres of land opposite Valley Forge, and his son, Henry, twelve hundred acres in Perkiomen township. In 1747 Henry, Jr., was elected captain of a company of Associators. In 1761 he was appointed by the Governor one of the commissioners for improving the navigation of the Schuylkill river, and was in 1773 succeeded in this office by his son, John Pawling, Jr. In 1761 Henry was sent into the Wyoming region to build houses for friendly Indians. This was a movement of the Proprietors of the Province to forestall the adventurers from Connecticut. He was a justice of the peace for many years in Philadelphia, and a member of the Colonial Assembly from 1764 to 1774 inclusive. In politics, the Pawlings were always attached to the Proprietary party. [CBRCP-CCUS, 873]

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 873.