Warner Mifflin

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1745

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1798

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee , Society of Friends

Notes: Son of Daniel Mifflin (1722-95) and Mary Warner Mifflin; born in Accomac County, Va.; married Elizabeth Johns; m. (1788) Ann Emlen (d. 1815). During Revolutionary War, visited both Howe and Washington on behalf of Friends (1777). Abolitionist; manumitted his slaves (1774-75). Author, A Serious Expostulation... (1793) and A Defence of Warner Mifflin (1796). Contracted yellow fever, Phila.; died near Camden, Delaware. Member of Indian Committee of PYM.

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