Invitation : Philadelphia, 1819 May 12.

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Invitation : Philadelphia, 1819 May 12.

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Invites an unnamed recipient to a meeting to find a way to reunite the city's Democrats, who had split into two factions in 1810. Signed by Leiper, Samuel Wetherill, John Connelly, and 6 others, representing both groups.

1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm.

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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...

Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Leiper, Thomas, 1745-1825

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Thomas Leiper was born December 15, 1745 in Strathaven, Lanark, Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh and immigrated to America in 1763, landing in Virginia where his brother already resided. He was immediately introduced into the business of tobacco, and within several years moved to Philadelphia where he opened a tobacco shop and "engaged in the storing and exportation of tobacco," (Leach). During the Revolutionary War, Leiper became the principal tobacco provider in ...

Connelly, John, 1956-

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