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 |
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