MR. HUGH FOULKE. RICHLANDTOWN, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Hugh was born in Coed-y-Foel, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, Wales the son of Edward and Eleanor Hugh Foulke.He immigrated from Wales with his parents arriving in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about 17th June 1698.
Hugh married Ann Williams on 4th April 1713 in Gwynedd Monthly Meetings, Gwynedd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Hugh moved his family to Richland, Bucks County, Pennsylvania after 1716. Hugh and Ann became members of the Richland Friends Monthly Meetings where Hugh was an accomplished preacher for 30 years.
Hugh died in the 75th year of his life.
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MR. HUGH FOULKE. RICHLANDTOWN, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Hugh Foulke was a member about thirty years of the latter part of his time, had a good gift in the Ministry, which we believe he endeavoured faithfully to discharge, and having a considerable share of experience in the progressive warfare of a christian life, was qualified and frequently concerned to communicate suitable advice, council of Exhortation, adapted to the various States of the people.He was zealously concerned to maintain and preserve peace and good order in the Church and to rule his own house well, it being one of his principal cares to bring up his children in the Fear of God, and early to inculcate in their minds the principles of virtue and truth, for which end he used frequently to call them together when young, at suitable times to wait upon the Lord, and would labor to imprint on their tender minds a just sense of the awfyl and solemn duties of religion.
He was diligent and exemplary in duly and seasonably attending Meetings both for Worship and Discipline while health and strength remained; his Life and Conversation were such as rendered him generally well beloved and esteemed to the end of his days.
His last sickness he was very sharp, he endured with much patience and resignation, and being sensible that his end was near approaching, he called for several of his children and relations to take his last leave of them, and in a calm and sweetly composed frame of mind, repeatedly expressed his sense of the love and goodness of God, in which he desired his dear Love to be remembered to all his friends, then gradually growing weaker tho' sensible to the last, he was favoured with a quiet, easy passage, and departed this life on the 21st day of the 5th month, 1760, in the 75th year of his age, and the 40th of his Ministry.