Saturday, February 11, 2012
Paper maker book mentions Peter Walover
The Paper Maker, Volumes 24-29 pages 213 and 215 mention Peter Walover.
American watermarks book to read
I want to get a hold of this book from the library - it has the Willcox watermark in it, too, I believe.
American watermarks 1690-1835
This new edition, revised with the assistance of Elizabeth Walsh of the Folger
Shakespeare Library, incorporates enhanced illustrations of all the original 700
watermark photographs, and adds more than 320 new watermarks found by
Mr. Gravell during the past twenty years. In all, 1,057 watermarks have now
been computer enhanced and tripled-indexed for better identification. This new
corpus of research includes revised and updated paper-mill histories,
an updated bibliography, a new glossary of papermaking, and new name, geographic,
and iconographic indexes. A new foreword by Keith Arbour recounts
Thomas Gravell's contributions to paper history.
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Walover watermark
The following link from The Library Company of Philadelphia identifies a letter from the United States, Office of Purveyor of Public Supplies as being printed on paper watermarked with "W & J" and an eagle; Gravell 1000 and 1001 identify the papermaker as Peter Walover.
http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000264218
http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000264218
St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery
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Last name
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First name
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Date died
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Location
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Wilcox
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Elizabeth
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June 20, 1919
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Plot 204 grave 2 South portion
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Wilcox
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James
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December 27, 1886
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Plot 204 grave 3 North portion
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Wilcox
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Sarah
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September 11, 1859
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Plot 204 grave 4 North portion
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Wallover
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Ann Maria
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January 31, 1818
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Plot C1033 grave 2 South portion
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Wallover
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Margaretta
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September 15, 1846
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Plot C1033 grave 4 North portion
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Wallover
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Peter
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April 17, 1824
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Plot C1033 grave 3 North portion
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Wallover
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Peter W.
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January 26, 1905
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Plot C1033 grave 3 North portion
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Wallover
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December 5, 1871
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Plot 64 grave 1 South portion
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Walton
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Anna Mary
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June 14, 1958
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Plot 340 grave 1 South portion
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Walton
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Charles M.
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July 24, 1941
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Plot 340 grave 1 South portion
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Walton
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Edward B.
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Unknown
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Plot 1285 grave 3 North portion
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Walton
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Elizabeth P.
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April 17, 1896
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Plot 464 grave 4 North portion
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Kartchner
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John Christopher
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Unknown
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Plot 64 grave 2 South portion
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I've got to make sense of the Sarah and James Wilcox listed here. There is a James Wilcox who is a son of John Wilcox and Sarah Walton....
Also, I need to see if I can determine from records who is buried in the other graves in the plots... that would help a ton in identifying other lines/relationships.
History of Manayunk by Charles V. Hagner
Great info
about the history of Manayunk that I need to go back and read. Manayunk Mills is mentioned in Wm. D.
Kartchner’s history as being the place where his father and mother worked (and they lived in Manayunk for a time as well).
Two names
that popped up in the text:
Paul Jones
Apparently
Peter Walover “was
trained in papermaking in America at the Paul Jones Mill in Manayunk after
serving as an indentured servant to Henry Drinker.”
Captain John Towers
Mentioned
in Joseph Price’s diary along with Peter Walover.
His
is a very fascinating history to read – according to the text “Captain John Towers
may justly be considered the pioneer of Manayunk.”
Info, video about mills of Lower Merion
Along the creek at Rolling Hill Park you can observe ruins of structures that once housed tenement workers of Deringer's Mill. The Nippes Rifle Manufacturing Mill site is now part of Rolling Hill Park. At the intersection of Old Gulph and Mill Creek Roads stands the 1690 house, assumed to be the home of millwright John Roberts.Mill Creek is the largest waterway running through Lower Merion Township. For over 200 years the mill industry supplied local residents and Philadelphians with grain, paper, guns and gun powder, lumber, metal, woolen fabrics, candles and lamp wicks. By the 1850's many of the mills closed or converted to textiles due to advances in technologies. Storms and floods devastated the mills and the flood of 1893 brought the final destruction to most of the mills along the creek.
A video about mills
http://www.mainlinevideoguide.com/merionmills.pop.html
Peter Walover mentioned in Joseph Price diary
From the diary of Joseph Price
Mo. 17th
1819 Wind S W froze prety hard but very fine Still Clear morn at Meeting George
& John here to dinner at the Doct alittle while Evening Reading after
Tompson high
18th Wind S & moderate
thawing day Little Wm. & I of[f] with the wagon to Abraham Carriers to get it mended they finished
about dusk & off Set for home prety dark Spent at Taylors 3 pints
19th wind S. and Red to sun
rise froze very Little If any not any one Wells here to Get a Coffin for Brooks
Child 2/6 Long I fell to work & made it myself out Mehoganey finishd it
Evening at Yerkes Pint bear Capt Towers & Peter Walover their Chated the Evening with them
Modern photos of Walover's Mill
800 Mill Creek Rd
Comments: Once Walover's Mill, later Merion Roller Flour Mill; Remodeled 1890
Keywords: GladwyneThree more photos are found at http://lowermerionhistory.org/buildings/image-building-list.php?building_id=583
Fascinating stories about Lower Merion mills and John Roberts III
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/first300/part07a.html
Walover’s Mill. After the Revolution Peter Walover, an immigrant from Menz, Germany, settled in Lower Merion. He was trained in papermaking in America at the Paul Jones Mill in Manayunk after serving as an indentured servant to Henry Drinker. The mill and miller’s house he purchased in 1807 was one of John Roberts’ original paper mills. The buildings were located at the current hairpin turn in Mill Creek Road at the narrow bridge.
For nearly ten years Walover apparently ran an efficient and immaculate mill, but the economic recession that occurred after the War of 1812 forced him into debt. His 33 acres of land with three "messuages" and a paper mill were sold at a sheriff’s sale in 1818. These buildings remain today serving as suburban residences.
The millers’ early 18th century home is known as "Tayr Pont" and is characterized by a second story porch. The mill building itself, along the side of the road, was run as a paper mill until 1848 by the new owners, Horatius G. Jones and Evan Jones. At that time Evan Jones renovated it to a cotton and woolen mill. Later he converted it to a flour mill called Merion Flour Mills. A date stone stating "E J 1848 Remodelled by Edw. S. Murray 1890" indicates a later conversion by Edward Murray, whose business was known as the Merion Roller Flour Mills.
Link to a photo:
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/photodb/web/html3/062-1.html
Link to a photo:
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/photodb/web/html3/062-1.html
Tayr Pont and the Evans Jones Mill
Tayr Pont and the Evans Jones Mill
Penn Valley
Tayr Pont, Welsh for "three bridges," a tribute to the three links to Mill Creek Road across Mill Creek. Tayr Pont itself sits high above Mill Creek Road. Presenting its side to the road and screened by mature trees, the house can be difficult to see. The core of this building was built in 1690, and had a long association with the area's creek history. Noted miller John Roberts III owned property far upstream, but in the mid-1700s he greatly expanded his holdings to own much of Mill Creek and numerous mills. He did not live here, but likely his millers did, and the core building was expanded in 1722. In 1939, architects Walter Durham and James Irvine worked on the property and the nearby mill, and their renovations revealed evidence of a 17th-centure core. Today a portion of once-exterior timber logs have been exposed on the interior.
Perhaps even more important than Tayr Pont's age is the fact that the Evan Jones Mill remains alongside. The mill building itself still stands at the Z-curve, now also a private residence, and for many years the mill and Tayr Pont were under the same ownership: Tayr Pont as the miller's residence and the mill on the creek. John Roberts built a paper mill on this site in 1758; he was hanged for treason 20 years later and the holdings dispersed to different owners.
In 1807 Peter Walover ran the mill, and it was renovated in 1848 by new owners Horatius Jones and Evan Jones first into a cotton and wollen and then a flour mill named the Merion Flour Mills. By 1890, Edwards Murray rehabbed it again and renamed it the Merion Roller Flour Mill. The two buildings were seperated in 1902 and in 1914 Tayr Pont was purchased by James Crosby Brown as part of his estate.
Penn Valley
Tayr Pont, Welsh for "three bridges," a tribute to the three links to Mill Creek Road across Mill Creek. Tayr Pont itself sits high above Mill Creek Road. Presenting its side to the road and screened by mature trees, the house can be difficult to see. The core of this building was built in 1690, and had a long association with the area's creek history. Noted miller John Roberts III owned property far upstream, but in the mid-1700s he greatly expanded his holdings to own much of Mill Creek and numerous mills. He did not live here, but likely his millers did, and the core building was expanded in 1722. In 1939, architects Walter Durham and James Irvine worked on the property and the nearby mill, and their renovations revealed evidence of a 17th-centure core. Today a portion of once-exterior timber logs have been exposed on the interior.
Perhaps even more important than Tayr Pont's age is the fact that the Evan Jones Mill remains alongside. The mill building itself still stands at the Z-curve, now also a private residence, and for many years the mill and Tayr Pont were under the same ownership: Tayr Pont as the miller's residence and the mill on the creek. John Roberts built a paper mill on this site in 1758; he was hanged for treason 20 years later and the holdings dispersed to different owners.
In 1807 Peter Walover ran the mill, and it was renovated in 1848 by new owners Horatius Jones and Evan Jones first into a cotton and wollen and then a flour mill named the Merion Flour Mills. By 1890, Edwards Murray rehabbed it again and renamed it the Merion Roller Flour Mill. The two buildings were seperated in 1902 and in 1914 Tayr Pont was purchased by James Crosby Brown as part of his estate.
Peter Walover/Jones Mill in Mill Creek Historic District
From the Mill Creek Historic District Website: http://www.livingplaces.com/PA/Montgomery_County/Lower_Merion_Township/Mill_Creek_Historic_District.html
The earliest mill located at the mouth of the [Mill] creek was a
saw mill owned by Thomas Rees, a stone cutter formerly of Roxborough. Rees ran
the mill from 1735 to 1741. The original Rees Mill was destroyed in 1805, the
result of an attempt at operating it as a powder mill. The site is now below
the waters of the Schuylkill River, the river's height having since been raised
by the construction of the Flat Rocks dam.[6]…
Meanwhile, John Roberts III also constructed a paper mill,
probably in 1758, where the Walover/Jones Mill now stands, supporting the
beginning of the boundary increase's period of significance. Like all of John
Roberts III's property, the mill was confiscated after his execution for
treason in 1778. (The Supreme Executive Council convicted Roberts of treason
for joining the British army and acting as a guide in September, 1777.)
Eventually, this land was sold by George McClenahan to Peter Walover, a Lower Merion
paper-maker. Evan Jones purchased the mill through a sheriffs sale, and
continued to operate the paper mill until 1848, when it first changed to a
cotton and woollen mill, and finally to a grist mill, known as Merion Flour
Mills. Like most mills on the creek, it ceased operation after the 1894 flood,
and was eventually renovated into apartments under the ownership of James
Crosby Brown, in 1924. The mill and its surrounding community of outbuildings
and residences is the boundary increase's most intact mill community, providing
a standing demonstration of nineteenth century mill community for all who pass
by on Creek Road.
Sarah Walton
I found the following entry on Family Search: It is of interest to me because of Bucks County and because my husband's grandmother had Isaac Walton listed as the father to Sarah Walton on her handwritten pedigree. The dates aren't right, though, because she would have died at age 20 without children. But maybe she is a relative.
https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/openpopup?dest=splitpopup&depth=1&bookid=p.K4JH-KM7&focus=p.K4JH-KM7&ro=true
| Sarah Walton |
https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/openpopup?dest=splitpopup&depth=1&bookid=p.K4JH-KM7&focus=p.K4JH-KM7&ro=true
Info about Peter Wallover
I stumbled across the following information on an ancestry board which helps explain more about Peter Wallover. Please...if anyone has info about Peter Wallover... send it to me at Denianek@gmail.com. Especially watch for mention of "Kartchner" "Kirchner" or any of Margaret Walton or her family. Thanks!
From: JWtopwater@aol.com
Subject: [WOHLEBEN-L] Peter Wallover
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:30:03 EDT
Subject: [WOHLEBEN-L] Peter Wallover
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:30:03 EDT
From: The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Old Mills of Mill Creek, Lower Merion by Charles R. Barker
Pg. #17 - Mention has already been made of the sale,in 1807, by
George McClenachan, of a portion of the original Robert Mill tract, with the paper mill. The buyer was Peter Walover, a Lower Merion paper maker. Previous to making this purchase, he has operated,on lease the Paul Jones paper mill near west Manayunk; but after the sale of that property to George
Helmbold,another paper maker ,he probably found it desirable to set up for
himself. To Robert Sutcliffe, a noted friend ,we are indebted for what is
undoubtly a picture of Wallover and his mill,although Sutcliffe's quaint
delicacy forbids his referring to anybody except by initials. The account,as
extracted from his diary,is as follows:
Having been several times kindly invited, I dined with P.W., a respectable paper-maker in the neighborhood of Merion,where I spent the afternoon pleasantly. The situation is beautifully romantic, being a deep narrow valley, the steep hills on either side of which are covered with wood. The mill which would be considered as an extensive one even in England, is almost wholly employed in making writing and printing paper,with large quantities of which he supplies the printers and stationers in Philadelphia.
During the visit he gave me a little history of his life. About twenty years
ago, being then twelve yrs. of age,he left Mentz,his native place in Germany, accompanied by his father, who died on passage to this country. Being of that class of immigrants called Redemptioners already mentioned,P.W. on the arrival of the ship in the Delaware,was hired by Henry Drinker,and was employed about the house as a waiting boy, and assistant to the girls in the kitchen. After spending nearly four years in this family,and having acquired the English language, he had the good sense to discern,that it would be more to his interest to be taught some manufacture; and requested liberty of his master to be put apprentice to a paper-maker,which was readily granted,although his first indenture was not yet expired.
After having obtained a knowledge of the manufacture of paper,he, by industry and care, acquired sufficient property and credit to enable him to begin his
business;which he has now, for several years,carried on to advantage. I never was in a paper mill where the business was managed with more neatness and order."
business;which he has now, for several years,carried on to advantage. I never was in a paper mill where the business was managed with more neatness and order."
This is surely a picture of prosperity, but unfortunately the picture has
two sides. For a sheriffs sale swept away the little property, which was
knocked down to Evan Jones. The latter continued to operate the paper mill
until 1848; then changed it to a cotton and woolen mill etc, etc.
From the Philadelphische Correspondenz (German newspaper).
November 26,1790
Freiederich Schuetz, papermaker, Lower Merion township Montgomery
County, advertises that his german servant, Peter Wallauer, ran away. He is
19 years old, has learned paper making, and speaks good English.
Peter Wallover,Sr. died April 17, 1824 and is buried at St.Pauls
Cemetery in Ardmore,Penna. Peter is listed as a veteran of the War of 1812
and his grave is suitably marked. During the war of 1812,he served in the 5th
class,36th Regimen,2nd Division,recruited in Bucks and Montgomery counties.
From: Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania" by Jordan,Volume
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