From Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks
William Walton, the ancestor of the Stroudsburg branch of the Walton family, was born in Moreland Township, Philadelphia, now Montgomery, County, about the year 1735, and died about the year 1783, in Bucks or Montgomery County. He is supposed to have been a grandson of Thomas Walton, the second of four brothers who settled in Byberry in 1687. . .and his wife Priscilla Hunn.
He married Elizabeth Wells, and on 4 mo. 24, 1758, he and his wife Elizabeth made an
acknowledgment to Abington Monthly Meeting for marriage out of unity. We know
very little about their subsequent history. On a genealogical chart prepared
by one of his descendants several years ago we have the names of his children
as given below. It is possible, however, that he had another son Abraham
Walton, who in a petition for guardian to the Orphans Court of Northampton
County, on 1 mo. 16, 1794, sets forth that he is one of the children of William
Walton, late of the County of Bucks deceased, who died about eleven years ago,
leaving among other children the petitioner who is now a minor above the age of
fourteen years and has labored in this county nearly four years now last
passed. We have therefore add the name of Abraham at the end of the list of
children on Chart above mention.
Children of William and Elizabeth (Wells) Walton:
2. Edward, b. 1758; m. Sina Davis
3. James, m. Hannah Tomkins
4. Priscilla, m. Nicholas Egbert
5. Elizabeth, m. George Koppelhouse
6. William, m. Sarah Lukens
7. Elisha, m. Elizabeth Tomkins
8. Abraham, b. 1776; d. about 1857;
