Abraham Gibbons

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1741

Birth Place: Westown School

Death Date: 1798

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends , Society of Friends

Notes: Quaker minister. Son of Joseph and Ann Gibbons; married Lydia Garret (1763) and Mary Canby (1790). Moved to Lancaster County. Died of Yellow fever in 1798 in Downington after attending Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Member of Committee to Deliberate. Active in anti-slavery and military exemption.

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