William Savery

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1750

Birth Place: Philadelphia

Death Date: 1804

Death Place: Philadelphia

Affiliations: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee , Society of Friends

Notes: Quaker minister and tanner. Son of William Savery (1721-87). Acknowledged a minister in 1781; ministerial travels in U.S., Canada, Europe. Mission to northwest Indians in Sandusky, Ohio (1793) with with Jacob Lindley, Joseph Moore, and William Hartshorne, and to Six Nations Indians, Canandaigua, N.Y. (1794). Member of the Indian Committee of PYM. Travelled in Europe in 1796. Married Sarah Evans, daughter of Pennell Evans of Berks Co., Pa. (1778).

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