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Last name Zane
First name Isaac
Display name Isaac Zane
Birth date 1711
Death date 1794
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings.
Bio notes Elder, Phila. Monthly Meeting. Member, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for Sufferings for nearly four decades. Interested in Indian relations; supervised the building of a new settlement for Delaware Indians in Wyoming Valley (1758). Interested in Quaker education. Trained as a carpenter; later listed as a gentleman in city directories. Interpreter. Born in 1711 and married Sarah Elfreth at Philadelphia Meeting in 1734. Died in 1794. Signed letter from Philadelphia Quakers to Cornplanter (1791). Signed letter to Indians in the Northwest and West in 1793.

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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

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Life of Thomas Eddy