Francis Rawle [SEP] date of birth
Francis Rawle
Francis Rawle (1660 – 5 March 1727), originally from England, was a Quaker and colonist in Philadelphia, where he served in administrative positions and was a member of the assembly.
Early life.
Rawle was born in England in 1660, son of Francis Rawle, and came of an old Cornish family of some wealth and standing. He settled at one time near St Juliot, and later in the neighbourhood of Plymouth. Both father and son were Quakers and followers of George Fox, and
Alfred Thornton Baker, a wealthy upholsterer, and Mary Augusta Pemberton, a socialite. Alfred, known as Bobby to his friends, had played halfback while a student at Princeton University in the 1880s, the same school his father had attended. One of Baker's ancestors was Francis Rawle, a Quaker who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1688 and became one of the wealthiest members of the city. Baker was named after his uncle, Dr. Hobart Amory Hare, who was the obstetrician at his birth and president of the Jefferson Medical Hospital