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Last name Parrish
First name John
Display name John Parish
Other names John Parrish
Birth date 1730
Death date 1807
Birth place Maryland
Death place balt1
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends
Bio notes Philadelphia Quaker minister. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, family moved to Philadelphia after death of parents. Brother of Isaac Parish (c.1734-1826); m. Ann Wilson (1753); m. Abigail Halloway Bissell (1773). In 1777 recommended a minister. In 1784 with James Cresson visited in the Barbados. Worked for welfare of Indians. Indian Committee of PYM. In 1807 visited Baltimore for Yearly Meeting, died at age 78.

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

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

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

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

Joseph Moore's Journal

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

Account of Canandaigua Treaty Negotiations

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

Letter from Quakers to General Wayne, 1795

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

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

Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793

Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue

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