Biographical Sketch of Charles WOLLERTON (1881); Chester County, PA

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From THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, by Futhey and Cope (1881);

pg. 770

WOLLERTON, Charles, son of Charles Wollerton, of the town of Hicklin, in the 
county of Nottingham, England, weaver, came to Pennsylvania, and married, 3, 
18,1726, at Concord meeting, Jane Chilcot.  They were not Friends, but were 
allowed to marry before the meeting, according to the rules of the society.  
they settled in the northern part of East Bradford township, where he died at an 
advanced age, and was buried, 5,13,1781, at Goshen Friend's Meeting.  His 
children were John; Sarah, m. to ___ Finley; James; Mary, m. to Walter Lilley; 
Jane m. to Thomas Spackman, of East Bradford.
  James Wollerton, born Sept. 18, 1731, died July 2, 1805, married Dorcas Few, 
born march 5, 1738, died May 24, 1815, daughter of Isaac and Jane Few. their 
children were Joseph, Charles, Hannah, Mary, Isaac, James, Dorcas, John and 
Jane.
  John Wollerton, son of Charles and Jane, died about 1794, and Mary, his widow, 
in 1795.  Their children were William, Ziba, James, John, Sidney (m. to William 
Mercer), Jane (m. to Caleb Gray), and Susanna (m. to Dell Price).
  William Wollerton, the eldest son of John, married, in 1789, Rebecca Harvey, a 
sister of Samuel Harvey, a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, and long time 
president of the Bank of Germantown.  he was by trade a saddler, and carried on 
the business extensively in West Chester.  In 1808 he purchased the Rankin farm 
of 100 acres, now in the southwestern part of this borough, and which he sold in 
1829 to William Everhart.  He then moved to Uwchlan township, where he died.  Of 
his thirteen children, but two sons and two daughters are now living.  One of 
these, William, was elected prothonotary in 1851, associate judge in 1856, and 
is now president of the First national Bank of West Chester.