Wetherill Papers, 1773-1899.

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Wetherill Papers, 1773-1899.

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Collection of business records of the Store and White Lead Works founded by Samuel Wetherill in the late eighteenth century and known successively as Samuel Wetherill & Sons, Samuel Wetherill & Son, Samuel Wetherill & Sons, Samuel P. Wetherill & Company, Wetherill & Brothers, Wetherill & Brother, and also J. P. & Charles Wetherill, J. Price & William Wetherill, and Wetherill & Company.

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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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...