Henry Pawling Jr.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military, 1715. I was a foot soldier with Captain William Nottingham in 1715.

• Property. ³⁷³ I settled in Lower Providence Township on a tract of five hundred acres, which lay on the Schuylkill, below the mouth of the Perkiomen.

I became a wealthy Englishman who was one of the patrons of Van Bebber's township a tract of land lying north of Phildelphia between the Schuylkill and the Delaware. Around 1700, my partners and I who were Englishmen and Dutch Patroons tried to establish a feudal kingdom in this section of Pennsylvania, but our plan fell through because of the independence of the early settlers who were for the most part plain people. The children of some of these aristocrats married into Mennonite families.

• Moved. I moved with my family to Pennsylvania and settled on my father's grant, bought from William Penn in 1681 which adjoining the land of my brother John.
This land was at the junction of Perkiomen Creek with the Schuylkill River.

• faith. I was prominently connected with St. James church.

Henry married Jacomyntie Kunst on 26 Jun 1713 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. (Jacomyntie Kunst was born in 1692 and died about 1729.)

  Marriage Notes:

Name: Jacomyntje KUNST Given Name: Jacomyntje Surname: Kunst Sex: F Birth: in Hurley, NY MARB:

Father: Cornelius Barrenstein Kunst Mother: Jacomyntie Sleight

Marriage 1 Henry PAWLING Children Rebecca Pawling Henry PAWLING b: June 27 1714 Sara PAWLING b: July 8 1716 Elizabeth PAWLNG b: March 22 1719 Barent PAWLING about 1720 Levi PAWLING b 1724 John PAWLING b: Dec. 27 1732 Elinor PAWLING about 1734

1. CORNELIS BARENTSEN SLEGHT is beaten in his owne house by his Souldr. George PORTER, and after this by the other Souldrs. forced to prison, and was by some souldrs. at his imprisonment used very hard. 6. Albert Heymans ROOS, going with is plouw yron towards the Smits, was assalted by five souldrs. whoe wounded him very much, whereupon 7. The souldiers said the sd. Albert Heymans going wifhout any Reason brought him to Imprisonment was most griviously wounded by Richard HAMER. 14. CORNELIS BARENTSEN SLEGHT, being by Capt. BROADHEAD very ill Treated, in his owne house, was afterwards by the sd. Capt. forced to prison, and his armes by force taken out of his house, wch. still doe Remaine by the sd. Capt. BROADHEAD. The commission appointed by the governor to look into the matter reported, "Albert Heymans and Anthony D. ELBA have spoken most malicious words, and I look upon them as great incendiaries and disaffected persons; if their words be proved they shall not be suffered to live in this government; if they have been actors in the late riot, pitch upon them two for ringleaders, and give order to inventory and secure their estates by the Schout and Commissaries." Albert Heymans ROOSA, one of his sons, Cornelis Barentsen SLECHT, and one other were found guilty and sentenced to be banished. All the sentences were later modified and they were allowed to return.

Cornelius Barrenstein (or Barrentsen) KUNST, the son of Jan Barrenstein KUNST and wife Jacomyntie CORNELIUS, married Jacomyntie KUNST as the first of her husbands. (Jacomyntie as a Dutch name was often anglicized as Jemimah.) Her parents were Cornelius Barrenstein SLECHT and Tryntje Tyrse BOZ. Jacomyntie married first Cornelius Barrenstein KUNST

Henry PAWLING (II), the son of Henry PAWLING (I) and wife Noeltje ROOSA, was born in 1689, in New York. He married Jacomyntie KUNST June 26, 1713, at Ulster, Kingston County, New York. He died August 30, 1739, in Lower Providence Township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. Jacomyntie was the daughter of Cornelius Barrenstein KUNST and Jacomyntie SLECHT, who are described in The Dutch Ancestors. Her date of birth and date of death are not known.

Henry PAWLING (II) moved to Pennslyvania by September, 1719. In 1715 he was in Ulster County, New York, serving in the militia. He settled on a plantation of five hundred acres at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Perkiomen, opposite what later became the almost sacred hills of Valley Forge. To the early settlers this region was known as the fat land of the Egypt District, and the analogy is close between these fair lands, so regularly inundated by the spring freshets and encrusted with the rich alluvial soil brought down by the upper river, and those in the East enriched by the annual life-bearing overflow of the Nile. (Can you tell I plagarized that?) Henry devoted himself to agriculture and reaped a competence. The inventory of his real and personal estate includes: eight slaves, eight horses, twenty-five cattle, thirty-one sheep and fourteen pigs.

From an early date the PAWLINGS were prominently identified with the Episcopal church of St. James at Perkiomen. At the first recorded meeting of its vestry, October 2, 1737, Henry is present as a vestryman. In June, 1738, he is a church warden. In its grounds he was buried and there a granite stone still plainly records: "In Memory of Henry PAWLING who Died August the 30th 1739. Aged 50 years."

Children of the marriage include the following:

Henry Augustus PAWLING, Sr., born June 20, 1714; died September 24, 1792; married Eleanor THOMAS; his son Henry Augustus PAWLING, Jr., married Rebecca BULL, daughter of William BULL, brother of Richard BULL who married Elizabeth PAWLING (The BULL Family).

Sarah PAWLING, baptized July 8, 1716; survived her father. Elizabeth PAWLING BULL married Richard BULL (I) and is described in Chapter III, The BULL Family. Barney PAWLING, living in 1791; married before December 12, 1754 Elizabeth JAMES. In 1766 he was a warrantee of lands in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was probably the father of Josiah, Isaac, and John, enrolled in Philadelphia County for service during the Revolution; of Rebecca, who married David SCHRYVER of New York, and Elizabeth, who married Owen GLANCY

Levi PAWLING, born about 1788; His life was identified with Ulster County, New York, where he achieved distinction in politics and military service. A Colonel in the Revolution, he married Helena BURHANS October 12, 1749. Their children were Albert PAWLING [Was a lieutenant-colonel commanding an Ulster County regiment in Revolution and is said to have been a colonel on WASHINGTON's staff. First High Sheriff of Rensselaer County, founder, first president, and first mayor of Troy]; Henry PAWLING [prisoner of war during the revolution, Captain of Light Infantry, in New York State Legislature]; William PAWLING [died unmarried]; Levi PAWLING [m Jane WILSON]; Margaret PAWLING DEYO [married Levi DEYO]; and Levi PAWLING died about 1782)

Eleanor PAWLING MORGAN, married before April 22, 1746, James MORGAN Major John PAWLING, 1732 - 1819; served in French and Indian War and American Revolution; built Pawling Manor north of Rhinebeck, New York, in 1761, where he later entertained General George WASHINGTON. Married (1) Neeltje VAN KEUREN (his cousin) (2) Marietje VAN DEUSEN, 1770. His children were Levi PAWLING, Eleanor PAWLING BROWN, Rachel PAWLING HUGHES, Alida PAWLING OSTROM, Catharine PAWLING, Jesse PAWLING, Jacomyntie PAWLING JAQUES, Elizabeth PAWLING STOUTENBURGH, Rebecca PAWLING UHL, Jacob PAWLING, and Catharine PAWLING CONKLIN COYLE; he died in Rhinebaeck, New York, December 30, 1819

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