Individual Details

Marriage

Caleb and Amos, sons of William, married daughters of Owen Jones, Sr., of Wynnewood, Lower Merion, who was the last Colonial Treasurer of Pennsylvania. Neither Caleb nor Amos left large families.

Event

His name is among the signers to the non-importation agreement of October, 1765. for many years his firm consisted of himself and his younger brother Amos, the name being "Caleb and Amos Foulke." (Papers thus signed I have, of 1774.) Later, however, Amos seems to have retired, as the firm in 1790 (and perhaps earlier), was "Caleb and Owen Foulke," the junior partner being Caleb's eldest son. The latter firm did a large foreign trade; among other things they exported flaxseed and imported linens from Newry, Belfast, ad Cork. These operations were, however, finally disastrous; at Caleb's death his estate was heavily involved, a debt to a London firm being large.

Event

In 1776 he had bought the Owen Evans farm, on the Swedes Ford road (now the estate of J. Lukens), and this he made his home during the British occupation of Philadelphia, and at other times, and perhaps permanently resided there toward the close of his life. In 1813, the sheriff of Montgomery county, Isiah Wells, sold it in the hands of his executors, his sons Caleb and Charles, and it was bought by his widow. Jane, who sold it to Dr. Hoseph Meredith in 1814. Jane d. in Germantown in 1815; her will was proved December 14th. She appoints her sons Caleb and Charles executors, and names her daughters Lowry Jones, (wife of Evan, of Gwynedd), and Hanna and Jane Foulke.