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Last name Sands
First name David
Display name David Sands
Birth date 1745
Death date 1818
Birth place Long Island
Death place New York
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Nine Partners Friends meeting, New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes N.Y. Quaker minister. Son of Nathaniel and Mercy Sands. Convinced through the ministry of Samuel Nottingham and was accepted into Nine Partners Monthly Meeting. Ministerial travels in New England, in Europe (1795-1805). Business dealings with Henry Drinker and Samuel Preston. Visited meetings of NYYM Indian Committee in 1807 and 1808.

Mentioned in:

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

Life of Thomas Eddy