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Last name Emlen
First name James
Display name James Emlen
Death date 1799
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Chester Friends meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes James Emlen travelled in company with Quaker minister, Peter Yarnall, to the southern states in 1796 and 1797. He married Phebe Peirce, daughter of James, in 1783. Indian Committee of PYM, appointed to attend treaty negotiations between US and Six Nations (1794). He died in 1799.

Mentioned in:

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

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

The Committee Appointed to Confer With the Friends who Attended the Indian Treaty

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

Account of Canandaigua Treaty Negotiations

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

Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue