Wetherill, Samuel, 1736-1816

Samuel Wetherill, a Philadelphia manufacturer of cloth, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, was a birthright Quaker. During the American Revolution, he actively supported the military effort and was disowned from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1779. In 1781, he was a founder of an independent meeting known as the Society of Free Quakers. He corresponded with a New England group of similarly disowned Quakers, associates of Timothy Davis (1730-1798), a respected minister who published a pamphlet in 1776 concerning the payment of taxes to the new government. Davis was disowned in 1778, but was reinstated in 1795.

From the description of Correspondence, 1780-1816. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 70208670

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