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Last name Gibbons
First name Abraham
Display name Abraham Gibbons
Birth date 1741
Death date 1798
Birth place westo
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends
Bio notes Quaker minister. Son of Joseph and Ann Gibbons; married Lydia Garret (1763) and Mary Canby (1790). Moved to Lancaster County. Died of Yellow fever in 1798 in Downington after attending Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Member of Committee to Deliberate. Active in anti-slavery and military exemption.

Mentioned in:

Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798

Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY

Joel Swayne Diary