A yeoman was a man who owned and cultivated a small farm. He belonged to the class below the gentry or land owners. A husbandman was a free tenant farmer. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman.
Nathaniel Walton born about 1722 in the Manor of Moreland,
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It is now Upper Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Caleb Walton.
He was a yeoman. He probably did not marry. He lived on a plantation in Moreland.
In the 1776 assessment of the Manor of Moreland he had 30 acres., 2 horses, and 1 cow.
In his will dated February 6, 1777, he named his siblings.
The Manor of Moreland was composed of a tract of ten thousand acres, and was created, in 1682, by a grant from William Penn to Dr. Nicholas More. Most of the Manor was in Philadelphia County, but is now
Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Planter is an archaic term for a settler. Plantation was a method of colonization where settlers were "planted" abroad. A plantation is also the kind of large farm that was the economical basis of many American Colonies and owners of these farms were also called planters.
