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About Henry Pawling
From Geneological Society Publications, page 14:
Henry Pawling was 50 years of age at the time of his death. The same source notes that Henry was the youngest son of Henry (Hendrick Paeldin) Pawling and Neeltje Roosa. It also says that Henry and his brother John Pawling, "removed from Ulster County [NY] and settled some ten miles from Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he and his family were members of St. James Church, Perkiomen."
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From Northern New York, page 230:
Henry Pawling "had three children baptized in Kingston -- Henry, Sara, and Elizabeth. About 1720 he removed to Pennsylvania, where his brother John had purchased in 1713 a tract of land near Philadelphia. Henry probably settled on his brother's grant. Here he had two other children born -- Levi and John."
From Northern New York, pages 230-31:
"In 1734 Henry lived on the Wetherill farm, opposite Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he owned five hundred acres of fine, improved land. He was a farmer of considerable wealth, as is shown by the fact that his widow gave bonds for [2000 pounds] in taking out administration papers on the estate of her husband. Among the property items in the inventory are eight slaves (Jack, Bess, Cate, Olliver, Jane, Tom, Tim and Bet), valued at various sums aggregating [210 pounds]. Henry Pawling was a warden of St. James Episcopal Perkiomen Church in 1721, which was destroyed by fire in 1820, and descendants have been prominently identified with this church as vestrymen and wardens. Local histories state 'The Pawling family was a large and influential one and honorably identified with the affairs of Pennsylvania.'"