Isaac Zane

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1711

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1794

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends , Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. , Philadelphia Friends meeting , Society of Friends

Notes: Elder, Phila. Monthly Meeting. Member, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for Sufferings for nearly four decades. Interested in Indian relations; supervised the building of a new settlement for Delaware Indians in Wyoming Valley (1758). Interested in Quaker education. Trained as a carpenter; later listed as a gentleman in city directories. Interpreter. Born in 1711 and married Sarah Elfreth at Philadelphia Meeting in 1734. Died in 1794. Signed letter from Philadelphia Quakers to Cornplanter (1791). Signed letter to Indians in the Northwest and West in 1793.

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