Elisha Tyson

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1749

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1824

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Committee on Indian Concerns , Society of Friends

Notes: In 1789 helped found the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Slavery, and later supported the African Academy. Member of BYM Indian Committee; hosted meeting between Indian Delegation and BYM Indian Committee in 1801, appointed to visit Indians with George Ellicott, Gerard Hopkins, and Joel Wright in 1804, appointed to visit Miami and Potawatomi Indians in 1808

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