Robert Bowne

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1744

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1818

Death Place: New York City

Affiliations: New York Friends meeting , Society of Friends

Notes: Robert Bowne returned to New York Monthly Meeting in 1783 with his wife, ebown1, and children. He died in New York in 1818 at the age of 74. Appointed as recipient for NYYM funds towards project with Indians; appointed to visit Mountakind and Shinecock tribes; signed letter to Onondaga tribe (1797). Abolitionist.

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