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Anna Thorn



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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Female

Birth Date: 1766

Birth Place: New York

Death Date: 1838

Death Place: Unknown

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

Notes: Daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Moore. Married Consider Merritt (1796); remarried in 1810 to Isaac Thorne. Recognized a minister. Traveled in the limits of New York, New England, and Baltimore Yearly Meetings;also visited Great Britain and Ireland. Member of NYYM Indian Committee, appointed in 1807 to visit Brotherton Indians, appointed in 1812 to visit Western tribes.

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