Religious Society of Free Quakers records, 1781-1975 1781-1975

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Religious Society of Free Quakers records, 1781-1975 1781-1975

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This collection contains minutes of the Society, 1781-1975; minutes of the directors of the Corporation, 1929-1947; membership book (with signatures of early members), 1785; and names of later members. There are also deeds to the meeting house and burying ground; treasurers' accounts; reports of officers and committees; bills and receipts for constructing, maintaining, and repairing the meeting house; cancelled checks; and letters to the Society and its officers, especially Samuel Wetherill, 1883-1884.

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Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829

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Timothy Matlack (March 28, 1736 – April 14, 1829) was a brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular and powerful leader in the American Revolutionary War, Secretary of Pennsylvania during the war, and a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1780. He became one of Pennsylvania's most provocative and influential political figures, but he was removed from office by his political enemies at the end of the war; however, he returned to power in the Jeffersonian era. Matlack was known for...

Marshall, Christopher, 1709-1797

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Apprentices' Library of Philadelphia.

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Ross, Betsy, 1752-1836

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Seamstress, credited with having made the first American flag bearing the Stars and Stripes at the request of George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross. Full name: Betsy Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypoole; married John Ross (1773), Joseph Ashburn (1777) and John Claypoole (1783). From the description of Papers of Betsy Ross, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070538 ...

Darragh, Lydia Barrington, 1728-1789.

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Wetherill, Samuel, 1736-1816

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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 1...

Bartram, Moses, d. 1791

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Society of Free Quakers

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Founded in Philadelphia in 1781, the Society of Free Quakers counted Moses Bartram, Clement Biddle, Elizabeth Claypoole (Betsy Ross), Lydia Darragh, Christopher Marshall, Timothy Matlack, Benjamin Say, and Samuel Wethergill, Jr. among its first members. From the guide to the Religious Society of Free Quakers records, 1781-1975, 1781-1975, (American Philosophical Society) The Society of Free Quakers were founded in Philadelphia in 1781. Among its first members were Moses Bart...

Say, Benjamin, 1755-1813

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Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

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Revolutionary patriot. From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1792 July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874585 Army officer and merchant. From the description of Clement Biddle correspondence, 1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450649 Biddle informs Wharm that he is going to advertise in Washington and Philadelphia newspapers for a missing letter he sent to Wharm containing two certificates of transfer to General Pinckney. ...