Individual Details

Marriage

In 1713 three of Edward Foulke's children were married -- Hugh, to Ann Williams; Jane to Ellis Hugh, and Catherine, to Theophilus Williams, so that then but three were left at home, Margaret, who married Nicholas Roberts, in 1717; Cadwallader, who married Mary Evans, in 1719, and the youngest son, Evan

Death

He was a minister of the Society of Friends for forty years.

From Hugh are descended all the Foulkes whose origin is traceable to Richland, and no doubt a majority of the members of the family now living are of his line." A family memorandum states that, "all their children lived to marry except Edward. In seventy years after their marriage the number of their posterity was three hundred and forty-three, and in 1810 was estimated at upward of five hundred, of whom one hundred and fifteen bore the name of "Foulke." In the face of such numbers of names it is easy to see that it is impossible to go into any description of the descendants except the briefest mention of some of those best known to me. Hugh's eldest child, Mary Foulke, married James Boone, who was an uncle to Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer, and her daughter Ann Boone, married, in 1807, Abram Lincoln, a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was of the family of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. Hugh's sons, Samuel and John Foulke, were both prominent men. John served in the Provincial Assembly from Bucks County from 1769 until its discontinuance in 1775. Samuel was a prominent member of the Society of Friends from 1761 to 1768 inclusive. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, and extracts of his journal kept at that time have been published. It was he who made the translation from Welsh into English of the narrative of his grandfather, Edward Foulke.