Individual Details

Judah Foulke

(30 Jul 1722 - 24 Jan 1776)

Judah, who lived in Philadelphia, was a prominent and active citizen, with refined and cultivated tastes, and of large means for those days.

Events

Birth30 Jul 1722Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, British America
Event1745Philadelphia,
Event1763Philadelphia
Event11 Dec 1772Philadelphia
Death24 Jan 1776

Families

SpouseMary Bringhurst (1721 - 1798)
ChildElizabeth Foulke ( - )
ChildMary Foulke (1753 - 1807)
ChildDr. John Foulke (1757 - 1796)
ChildDeborah Foulke (1764 - )
FatherCadwallader Foulke (1691 - 1743)
MotherMary Evans ( - 1747)

Notes

Event

From 1745 to 1750 he was Collector of Excises for Philadelphia, and in 1770, 1771 and 1772 Sheriff of the City and County of Philadelphia.

Event

deed conveying in 1763 from "Owen Biddle, of Philadelphia, watchmaker, and Sarah, his wife, and Joseph Fox, of said city, Esquire, and Elizabeth, his wife, and Judah Foulke, of Philadelphia, merchant, and Mary, his wife," "to John Pemberton, of said city, gentleman," a lot of land and steel furnace, at, or near Trenton, New Jersey. This furnace was erected in 1750, it having been built in accordance with an Act of Parliament in the twenty-third year of the reign of George the Second, which was entitled "An Act to Encourage the Importation of Pig and Bar Iron from His Majesty's Colonies in America, etc."

Event

A quaint document, dated December 11, 1772, recites that "His Excellency, John Penn, with the advice of council, constitutes and appoints, Judah Foulke, gentleman, keeper of the Standards of Brass for Weights and Measures for the County of Philadelphia."