Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1813-1815.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1813-1815.

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Two letters, dated 28 August 1813 and 28 April 1815, to Samuel Wetherill, Jr. of Philadelphia.

2 items (2 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Vanuxem, James

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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...