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Belle Air
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Items relating to the Belle Air estate and the people who lived on the property between John Rudolph's purchase of it in 1806 and its sale to the Augustinians in 1841.
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On the 3d instant, Jane A. relict of John Rudolph, aged 72 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from her late residence, Radnor township, Delaware county … this morning, at 8 o’clock precisely. Internment at St. Augustine’s Church at 10 ½ A.M.
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Death Notice: Jane A. Rudolph (1861)
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1861-10-05
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America's Historical Newspapers — Philadelphia<em> Inquirer</em>
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Jane Rudolph, widow of John Rudolph, dies in 1861.
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Jane Lloyd Rudolph
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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Belle Air
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Items relating to the Belle Air estate and the people who lived on the property between John Rudolph's purchase of it in 1806 and its sale to the Augustinians in 1841.
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Free White Persons - Male - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Male - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Male - 16 thru 25: 3
Free White Persons - Male - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Female - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Female - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Female - 45 and over: 1
Number of All Other Free Persons: 3
Number of Household Members under 16: 3
Number of Household members over 25: 2
Number of Household Members 12
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Census: John Rudolph (1810)
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John Rudolph is listed as head of the Belle Air household in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania in the 1810 Census. There are twelve members of the household total, nine of whom are listed as white and three of whom are listed as "other free persons."
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1810
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1810
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Jane Lloyd Rudolph
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Belle Air
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March 29th 1841
Wm Moulden was free Sep. 5th 1840 having faithfully discharged his engagements to Mr. John Rudolph, and since his death, continued to do the same by me, I cheerfully say that I believe him to be a sober, honest, and industrious man, and also that he is of a peaceable disposition.
Jane A Rudolph
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Augustinian Provincial Archive 501.01, Folder 121
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Statement of Freedom for William Moulden
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On September 5, 1840, Jane Rudolph granted twenty-two-year-old William Moulden his freedom. According to Pennsylvania’s gradual abolition policies, Moulden was not legally required to be freed until twenty-eight years old. Moulden continued to work for Jane Rudolph as a free man until 1843.<br /><br />This statement William Moulden's freedom was written by Jane Rudolph on March 29, 1841.
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Jane Rudolph
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1841-03-29
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Augustinian Provincial Archive
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Certificate of Freedom
Belle Air
Freedom
Indenture
Jane Lloyd Rudolph
John Rudolph
William Moulden
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Moulden Family
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The dedication of the new West Campus residence halls took place Oct. 11 in front of Welsh Hall. The four buildings, William and Jane Moulden Hall, John A. Klekotka, O.S.A. Hall, Jane Rudolph Hall, and Robert J. Welsh, O.S.A. Hall, were blessed in a formal ceremony and the naming of each building was explained. Dr. Christine Lysionek, director of Residence Life, began the ceremony by introducing Dr. Richard A. Neville, vice president of Student Life.
Neville welcomed the audience to the ceremony and proceeded to thank everyone who was involved with the construction of the apartments. "Board members, faculty and staff of the University, administrators, township officials and architects and builders: each group shares a common sense of happiness and satisfaction..." from the opening of the apartments, Neville said. However, "the happiest group here today are the students" who are currently living in the apartments. The construction of the new apartments demonstrates the University's "long-term hopes of adding significantly new and improved facilities" for students.
Each of the four apartments was dedicated in honor of individuals who have contributed to the University in some way. Julie Vastola, Apartment Assistant (AA) in Rudolph Hall, explained that the hall was named after Jane Rudolph who sold her Belle Air Estate to the Augustinians in 1841. She is considered to be the University's first benefactor.
Moulden Hall was named in honor of Bill and Julia Moulden, African-Americans who lived on the Belle Air Estate, said Clarence Watson, AA in Moulden Hall. Bill Moulden was an indentured servant who worked o the estate. The two contributed $200 to the construction of the first Chapel and willed their entire estate, approximately $7,000 to the University.
Greg Doran, AA in Klekotka Hall, explained that Klekotka was named after the Rev. John A. Klekotka O.S.A. who was the 23rd president of the University from 1959-1965. During his administration, Mendel Hall was constructed.
Welsh Hall has been name din honor of the Rev. Robert J. Welsh O.S.A. who was the 25th president of the University from 1967-1971, said Stan Phelps, AA in Welsh Hall. During his administration, the Univeristy opened its doors to females and the University Senate was established. Until his death in 1992, Welsh served as assistant to the University President, the Rev. Edmund J. Dobbin, O.S.A.
James Drobile, chairman of the Board of Trustees, then spoke concerning the construction of the ... (Continued on page 4)
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The Villanovan, Vol. 70. No. 5
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"West Campus Apartments Dedicated in Ceremony" in <em>The Villanovan</em> (1994)
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This article was on the front page of <em>The Villanovan</em> student newspaper in October of 1994. The article describes the dedication ceremony for four West Campus apartment buildings, including Moulden and Rudolph Halls. The author also gave brief explanations for who each building was named in honor of.
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Jane Papaccio
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1994-10-28
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Newspaper
Jane Lloyd Rudolph
Julia Moulden
Villanova
Villanova campus
West Campus Apartments
William Moulden
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Curfew sounds promptly at 11 o’clock. The bar at the roadside tavern closes business. Customers in the room at the time are invited to leave, or, if they choose, to join in night prayers with the family. And night prayers means recitation of the rosary.
One could not find such a tavern on the roadsides of the whole United States today, in all probability. It is not the fashion of “taverns,” as the beer-drinking places, even on city streets, are called today. Nor is it the fashion of their patrons. If the tavern-keeper were so inclined, the customers simply would not have it. They are only getting started at 11 o’clock. Curfew is out of fashion all together. More’s the pity perhaps.
Some people may doubt whether there ever existed such aa tavern with such conscientious proprietors, forgetting that in the pre-prohibition days there were States where licenses to sell hard liquors and beer were granted with considerable liberty but where there time limits on drinking and it was deemed within the functions of government to fix a time when bars should close and patrons should go home to bed or otherwise dispose of themselves.
But this particular tavern and its proprietors did exist. Reverend F. E. Tourscher, O.S.A., of Villanova College, tells the story, in adding some interesting information concerning “Billy and Mary Moulton” (Moulden, correctly), to whom Tom Daly made allusion in a recent column on this page.
They were a rare couple, ex-slaves and pure black. “When we knew them in the ’80s,” Mr. Daly said, “they gave a gay touch to the solemn celebration of St. Patrick’s Day at Villanova.” Father Tourscher adds that Mary’s silk gown was of vivid green and a band of the same color encircled Billy’s hat, with a large rosette on his coat. This no doubt caught the eyes of the collegians of the eighties.
Continuing, Fr. Tourscher writes: Apart from this mark of devotion to St. Patrick and a love of display in the “wearing of green,” I find in the old records at Villanova some notes that tell of other qualities in members of the Moulden family worth of interest.
William Moulden, Sr., was brought out to the Rudolph Farm (now the premises of Villanova College) by John Rudolph, the owner of the farm, about 1833. William was then about 15 years of age. He was the son of Isaac Moulden and Mary Marshall, who were the property of the Rudolphs on their estate in Maryland. William, however, was born in Philadelphia.
Slave Born But Given His Freedom: William Moulden was made a “freeman” September 5, 1840, by a certificate signed by Jane A. Rudolph, the widow of John Rudolph and one of the daughters of Thomas Lloyd first shorthand reporter of the Proceedings of Congress. Mrs. Rudolph, with her mother and sisters, lived in the farmhouse, Belle-Air, to the time of its purchase by the Austin Friars in 1842.
On the twenty-first day of February, 1841, William Moulden and Julia Thompson (both colored) were married in St. Denis’ Church, West Haverford, by Michael O’Connor, later the first Bishop of Pittsburgh. The “wedding dinner” for the Mouldens was held in the Rudolph home. William evidently was born of Catholic parents, the bondservants, of the Rudolphs or the Lloyds. Julia Thompson had been brought up by a Quaker family, “collectors in the Gulph”—probably this means that they kept the tollgate on the Gulph Road. Julia Thompson was received into the church in 1839, So far as is known the Mouldens were the first colored Catholic family on the “Main Line.”
In 1847, October 4, William Moulden acquired by deed a plot of land at the southwest corner of Lancaster Turnpike and Roberts Road where the Bryn Mary Telephone Exchange now stands. The tract contained two acres and sixty four perches, and is described as being bounded on the south or southwest by the “Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad”
Nesting and Raising the Brood: It was here, in a little frame house, that the Mouldens lived. Here, according to a note of Mrs. Maria Shea, who lived with the Lloyds a good part of her life, their thirteen children were born. The records of baptisms and confirmations at Villanova go back only to 1848. There are entries of twelve, perhaps only ten children in these records. They are described by Fr. Middleton as faithful and devout attendants at church services—always at church in all kinds of weather.
Some of the qualities of William Moulden and Julia may be inferred from the fact that they acquired and retained the ownership of what was then and is now a very desirable property in Lower Merion Township.
In their humble residence William kept his bar, under the License Laws of the time, and sold refreshments to wayfarers on the pike. Over the entrance was the legend in the nineties, “Liberty and Independence.”
William Moulden died April 1, 1893. By his Will date August 6, 1886, his property is left to his wife, Julia, and two surviving children, Mary and William junior. Julia, the faithful wife, died February 22, 1888. William junior died in Norristown, December 2, 1889. Mary, the last surviving member of the family, died April 7, 1898. All were buried from the church at Villanova and interred in the cemetery at St. Denis’.
F.E. Tourscher, O.S.A.
Villanova College
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"Men and Things: Story of the Mouldens, Born Slaves But Made Free by Their Owners, the First Negro Family of the Catholic Faith on the Main Line and Truly a Rare Couple" in the <em>Philadelphia Evening Bulletin</em> (1936)
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Fr. F. E. Tourscher, O.S.A, wrote this article on William and Julia Moulden in April of 1936 in response to Thomas A. Daly's March 17 article. Tourscher speaks about the Moulden's tavern and narrates important events in their lives. <br /><br />Tourscher started at Villanova in 1892, a year before William Moulden's death and a few years after Julia Moulden's death. Though he may have briefly known William Moulden and his daughter Mary, most of what's covered in this article occurred before Tourscher began at Villanova.
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Francis E. Tourscher, O.S.A.
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1936-04-09
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English
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F. E. Tourscher
Jane Lloyd Rudolph
Julia Moulden
Lower Merion Township
Maria Daly Shea
Mary Moulden
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Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
T. A. Daly
Villanova
William Moulden