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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.

Mentioned in:

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