Nicholas Waln

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1742

Birth Place: Philadelphia

Death Date: 1813

Death Place: Philadelphia

Affiliations: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends , Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. , Society of Friends

Notes: Philadelphia Quaker minister. Son of Nicholas Waln and Mary Shoemaker Waln; married Sarah Richardson, daughter of Quaker merchant Joseph Richardson (1772). Abandoned successful legal career for ministry (1773). Visited England meetings in 1783-85, again ten years later with David Bacon. Served as Clerk to the Yearly Meeting for Sufferings for a period of time. Visited by Robert Sutcliff in 1804. Went to Ohio with Isaac Bonsall in 1806.

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