Samuel Lightfoot

1701 - 1777  (76 years)

• Name	Samuel Lightfoot
  Birth	5 Feb 1701	County Westmeath, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Ireland to Pennsylvania
  Death	26 Feb 1777	Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Uwchlan Friends Burial Ground, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I31166	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Quaker Minister Thomas Lightfoot,   b. 1645, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England d. 4 Sep 1725, Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Wily
  Marriage	1694
  Family ID	F11305	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  May be resting in Kennett. Records for Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, mention he was buried in Chester. During his time as a surveyor, in Samuel 1747 erected a small grist mill on Pickering Creek in Pikeland County - today, this is a National Historic Landmark known as Lightfoot Mill (Mill at Anselma) and is acknowledged as "the nation's best surviving example of a water-powered custom grist mill."

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143387592/samuel-lightfoot.