John Parrish journals c. 1790-1793 Parrish, John

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John Parrish journals c. 1790-1793 Parrish, John

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-4505.4par?rgn=main;view=text

The collection consists of five journals and one memoir that document Quaker missionary John Parrish’s travels throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and Ohio from 1773 to 1793, during a treaty negotiations between the U.S. government and the Six Nations Iroquois.

6 volumes

eng,

William L. Clements Library

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William L. Clements Library

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Parrish, John, 1730-1807

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Quaker minister of Philadelphia and Baltimore. Born in Maryland in 1729, the son of John and Elizabeth Roberts Parrish, he was apprenticed in Philadelphia and afterwards married Ann Wilson in 1753. Parrish travelled in the ministry to the Delaware Indians of western Pennsylvania in 1773 and again in 1784 to Barbadoes. In 1806 he wrote Remarks on the Slavery of the Black People. From the description of Notes on Abolition, circa 1805. (Swarthmore College). Wor...

Parrish, John, b. 1729

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John Parrish (1729-1807) was a Quaker missionary who, at the time he wrote these journals, was involved in several negotiations between the United States government and the Six Nations of the Iroquois, who lived in the territories east of the Mississippi River. Because he has been poorly documented as a historical figure, very little information exists on his personal life. In his adult years, he lived with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia, although as a young man he resided in...