Shadrach Ricketson

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1768

Birth Place: New York City

Death Date: 1839

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee , Society of Friends

Notes: Quaker physician. b. NYC; staunch advocate of vaccination for smallpox. Member of NYYM Indian Committee as of 1799, appointed to visit Brotherton, Stockbridge, and Oneida Indians in 1809.

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