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Last name Lindley
First name Jacob
Display name Jacob Lindley
Other names Jacob Lindly
Birth date 1744
Death date 1816
Birth place newga
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Chester Co., Pa. Quaker minister; traveled to Sandusky, Ohio, with delegation of other Quakers from Phila. Yearly Mtg. in an effort to bring about peace between Northwest Indians and U.S. government; ministerial travels from Canada to Carolinas; temperance advocate; m. twice, first to Hannah Miller, second time to Ruth-Anna Rutter (1800). Indian Committee of PYM. Was active in founding of Westtown School, 1797.

Mentioned in:

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

Halliday Jackson 1800 Journal (continued)

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

Joseph Moore's Journal

Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Letter to John Drinker from John Parrish et. al.

Letter to John Parrish & others from Gen. McKee

Address to the Six Nations

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793