Jeremiah Thompson

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1784

Birth Place: Yorkshire

Death Date: 1835

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: New York Manumission Society , New York Friends meeting , Society of Friends

Notes: New York merchant, ship owner, Quaker, officer in the New York Manumission Society, and co-founder in 1817 of the Black Ball Line. Emigrated to US from Yorkshire in 1801. Helped Thomas Eddy establish first Savings Bank in New York in 1819.

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