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Last name Bacon
First name David
Display name David Bacon
Birth date 1729
Death date 1809
Birth place New Jersey
Death place Philadelphia
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting
Bio notes David Bacon, son of John, married Mary Trotter in 1751. He died in Philadelphia in 1809 at the age of 80. Active in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Attended 1794 Indian Treaty in Canandaigua. Accompanied Nicholas Waln to England and Ireland in 1795. Friend of Joseph Moore; signed 5 letters regarding Indian affairs.

Mentioned in:

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

Joseph Moore's Journal

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

Account of Canandaigua Treaty Negotiations

Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795

Letter from Quakers to General Wayne, 1795

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff

Joel Swayne Diary