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Last name Drinker
First name Henry
Display name Henry Drinker
Birth date 1734
Death date 1809
Birth place phila
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Son of Henry and Mary Gottier Drinker. Merchant, concerned in iron business. Married Ann Swett in 1757 and Elizabeth Sandwich at Philadelphia meeting in 1761. Involved in PYM in many capacities: Indian Committee, Treasurer (1807), etc. Was an active promoter of Westtown School. On Board of Overseers of Public School of Philadelphia (1763), Comissioner to pave and clean streets of Philadelphia (1765), on Common Council (1789), President of Abolition Society, Director of Pennsylvania Hospital, Member of Philosophical Society. Visited in Germantown

Mentioned in:

Letter from Quakers to Cornplanter

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804

Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806

Joseph Clark's Account of a Journey to the Indian Country, 1797

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

Joseph Moore's Journal

Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798

Address to the Six Nations

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

Treasury Account of Goods to be sent to the Indians, 1795

Letter from Quakers to General Wayne, 1795

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

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

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

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom

Joel Swayne Diary