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Last name Yarnall
First name Ellis
Display name Ellis Yarnall
Birth date 1757
Death date 1847
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Phila. Quaker merchant and philanthropist. Brother of Eli Yarnall (1752-1812); m. (1780) Rachel Worrell; m. (1789) Mary Horner (d. 1836). Elder, Twelfth St. Monthly Mtg.; advocate for Indians and African Americans; treasurer, Phila. Yearly Mtg. Member of PYM Indian Committee, at least 1798-1801.

Mentioned in:

Halliday Jackson's Book [of Corrrespondence], Genesinguhta, 1798-1800

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

Joel Swayne Diary