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I was intrigued and began the pursuit.  As shown below I had some Joseph Foulke's in my database, but none of them proved to be the one in question.  I did manage to find the correct man and it turned out to be a NEW Joseph Foulke for me.  I now have to determine just how he might fit into my Foulke family.

It also seems unlikely that the second one, (ID2653) is the one either because it does not seem likely that he would have had the financial resources necessary to have purchased such an estate.

Dr. Joseph Foulke, Jr., was born after the event as well

I now have a fourth Joseph Foulke, ID4799 - (1769-1852) - who is the one that purchased Gracie Mansion in 1823

It is said that most of the Foulke's in this country descend from Edward Foulke, ID0168, who arrived in Philadelphia from Wales in 1698.  If this is correct then this new Joseph Foulke should be connected.

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Extract: Page 181
To William B Reed, Esq.]
Wheatland, Sept 8, 1856
My Dear Sir: --

I have received your favor of the 5th inst. I do not recollect the names of the two members of the Society of Friends to whom you refer; but should you deem it important, I can, with some trouble, find the original letter. I have no doubt Dr. Parrish was one of them. He, William Wharton and Joseph Foulke were the three gentlemen referred to in my remarks on 25 April, 1836, in presenting the petition of the Society of Friends against the admission of Arkansas, etc. They not only acquiesced in my course, but requested me to procure for them a number of copies of the National Intelligencer containing my remarks, and left Washington entirely satisfied. (Vide the volume of the Register of Debate to which you refer, pages 1277 and 1278.) 
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Extract, Page 696:
Foulke, Joseph, member of Society of Friends, il, 181.

Extract  Page 439, 440:
Joseph Foulke
Amongst the community of the Friends, at Gwynedd, the most conspicuous figure, for many years, was Joseph Foulke. He was born there, May 22, 1786. In 1817, he appeared as a minister, and was admitted a member of the meeting of ministers and elders in 1821, after which he continued in the ministry to the end of his life, more than forty years. He made numerous visits to distant meetings, including those in New Jersey, New York, Canada, Maryland, Ohio, and Indiana. He had learned the trade of a wheelwright (which was also originally the trade of his father), and had expected to pursue it as an occupation, but his inclinations turned to teaching, and in 1811 he took charge of Friends' School at Plymouth, where he continued for six years; and then, after teaching one year at Upper Dublin, he established in the autumn of 1818, a boarding school for young men and boys, at Gwynedd, on part of his father's estate. This school he conducted for many years with marked success, and it was continued later, until about 1860, in the charge of his sons Daniel and Joseph, and his nephew, Hugh Foulke Jr. Joseph published (Philadelphia : 1844) a memoir of Jacob Ritter (a preacher among Friends, who had been a Revolutionary soldier: see in Watson's Annals details of his confinement in the British prison in Philadelphia). He also conducted for many years the publication of the "Friends' Almanac", furnishing for it the astronomical calculations. In 1836 he visited Washington as one of a committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to influence Congress against the admission of Arkansas as a slave state. (See Curtis's Life of James Buchanan, Vol. I, p. 337; Vol II, p. 181.) His MS. Journal, giving many interesting details of his life, has been repeatedly drawn upon for this work.

Extract:
"Dr. Joseph Foulke, for many years a practicing physician of Buckingham, was a great grandson of Edward, through his son Hugh (1752-1831), a noted minister among Friends, who married Ann Roberts, their son Joseph (1786-1863), who married Elizabeth Shoemaker, being the father of the Buckingham physician."

Extract:
"Gwynedd Boarding School"
"18-1/4 miles from Phil. On Bethlehem Turnpike"
1] Joseph Foulke: Head of Household - 64 yr. old Male - S. Teacher - Real Estate Value: $1600 - Born Pennsylvania
2] Elizabeth Foulke: 59, Female, born Pennsylvania
3] Daniel Foulke: 36, Male - Farmer - Real Estate Value: $3500 - Born Pennsylvania
4] Joseph Foulke: 23, Male - School Teacher, Born Pennsylvania
5] Milton Stokes: 19, Male - Born New Jersey - Attended School
6] Edward Bitting: 20, Male - Born Pennsylvania - Attended School
7] Evan Jones Lester: 14, Male - Real Estate Value: $22000 - Born Pennsylvania - attended school
8] William F. Vashe: 12, Male - Born Pennsylvania - Attended School
9] Edward Williams: 14, Male, born Pennsylvania - Attended School
10] William Wright: 13, male - Born Pennsylvania - Attended School
11] Isaac F. Wright: 10, Male - Born Pennsylvania - Attended School
12] Samuel Browne: 12, male - Born Pennsylvania - Attended School
13] Charles Ward: 11, male - born New Jersey - Attended School
14] George Shorday: 12, male - Born Pennsylvania - Attended School
15] William Boroughs: 9, male - Born Ohio - Attended School

Extract:
1] Joseph Foulke: Head of household - 73, Male - White Married for 42 years - Born Jan 1827 - He and parents born Pennsylvania - Occupation: Physician - Able to read, and write
2] Caroline C. Foulke: Wife of head - 64, female - white married for 42 years, Born Feb 1836 - had 6 children, 5 are living - She and father born in Pennsylvania, mother in New Jersey - Occupation: Capitalist - Able to read and write
3] Caroline M. Foulke: daughter of head - 36, female, white, Single - Born Jan 1864 - She and parents born Pennsylvania - Occupation: House Keeper - able to read and write
4] Phebe F. Foulke: Daughter of head - 38, female, white, Single - born Jan 1862 - She and parents born Pennsylvania - Occupation: School Teacher - Able to read and write
5] Hannah Foulke: Daughter of head - 33, female, white, Single, born July 1866 - She and parents born Pennsylvania - able to read and write
6] Mellissa F. Pierce: Daughter of head - 29, female, white, married for 4 years - born Oct 1870 - had 2 children, both living - She and parents born Pennsylvania - Occupation: House Keeper - Able to read and write
7] Edward F. Pierce: Grand Son of Head - 2, male, white, single - born Aug 1897 - He and father born Illinois, mother born Pennsylvania
8] Caroline F. Pierce: Granddaughter of Head - 1, female, white, single - born Dec 1898 - She and father born Illinois, mother born Pennsylvania
9] Frank M. Bartram: Boarder
10] Julia Doesser: Boarder
Sheet 100B:
11] Lola Ray Eastburn: Boarder
12] Herbert P. Woodnut: Boarder
13] Alphaus Bildenback: Boarder
14] Clement H. Hall: Boarder

Household:
- Rented Home at 1709 Race St.

Repository:  Gracie Mansion

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Brought to my attention in an email from my cousin, ID4757 - 15 Feb 2012

Joseph Foulke mentioned as a member of the "Fire Club"  column 1 near the beginning of the article.