Background
According to church records, Thomas Wynne was the fourth of five sons of Thomas Wynne Senior, Thomas Wynne lost his father at the age of 11.
According to church records, Thomas Wynne was the fourth of five sons of Thomas Wynne Senior, Thomas Wynne lost his father at the age of 11.
He in turn after the death of Doctor Richard Moore apprenticed his son Mordecai Moore.
Born in Ysceifiog, Wales, where his family dated back seventeen generations to Owain Gwynedd He accompanied Penn on his original journey to America on the ship Welcome. While attracted to the study of medicine early on, heavy taxes levied on his family originally made the acquisition of proper learning materials difficult. His trade was that of cooper.
He was licensed in Shropshire by Doctorates
Hollins, Needham and Moore. Henceforth a devout Quaker and author of several pamphlets on Quaker doctrine, Wynne faced persecution and even six years" imprisonment in England in the 1680s.
Wynne was notable for erecting the first brick house in the colony of Philadelphia, on his "Liberty Lot" at Front and Chestnut streets (known as Wynne Street until renamed by Penn in 1684). He returned to England with Penn in 1684.
He served as speaker for the first two Pennsylvania Assemblies of the Province in Philadelphia in 1687 and 1688 and acted as Justice of Sussex county, now a county in Delaware, from 1687 to 1691.
He was appointed a justice of the peace in January 1690 and held the position of justice of the provincial court from September 1690 until his death. His time in America lasted only nine years. His death is noted by the meeting of Radnor Friends Meetinghouse then at Duckett"s Farm which in 1950 was located at the West Philadelphia train station not far from his home at Wynnestay.
Thomas Wynne was also affiliated with the Architecture Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia.
This Thomas is remembered on the Lower Merion Revolutionary War Memorial.