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Last name Thorn
First name Anna
Middle name Moore
Display name Anna Moore Thorne
Birth date 1766
Death date 1838
Birth place newyo
Gender f
Affiliations Society of Friends, New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends
Bio notes Daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Moore. Married Consider Merritt (1796); remarried in 1810 to Isaac Thorne. Recognized a minister. Traveled in the limits of New York, New England, and Baltimore Yearly Meetings;also visited Great Britain and Ireland. Member of NYYM Indian Committee, appointed in 1807 to visit Brotherton Indians, appointed in 1812 to visit Western tribes.

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Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1