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 | Joseph Ashton Sr. (1654-1707)
Photo is of the Pennepack Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Included with the photo is the following information: "Joseph Ashton (1654-1707) came to this country before Penn did, and owned lands up the creek near Well Spring. He and his wife, Jane, were the first people baptized in Pennsylvania. They joined the Baptists who fled from Wales in 1686, and settled up the Pennypack, beyond Bustletown (Pa) where they started the Pennypack Meeting, the mother church for all Baptists in Eastern Pennsylvania." This information is copied from the book: Philadelphia History Consisting of Papers Read Before the City History Society of Philadelphia; With a History of the Society and a General Index, Philadelphia, 1917, pg. 221. Also from the website: babel.hathitrust.org. |
1654 - 1708 (54 years)