Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93007421 |
Last name | Waln |
First name | Nicholas |
Display name | Nicholas Waln |
Birth date | 1742 |
Death date | 1813 |
Birth place | Philadelphia |
Death place | Philadelphia |
Gender | m |
Affiliations | Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. |
Bio 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. |
Letter from Quakers to Cornplanter
Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806
Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country
Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings
Address to the Six Nations
Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795
Letter from Quakers to General Wayne, 1795
Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff
Life of Thomas Eddy