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Last name Shotwell
First name Joseph
Middle name D.
Display name Joseph D. Shotwell
Birth date 1782
Death date 1856
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Joseph Dobson Shotwell was the son of Henry and Sarah Dobson Shotwell of Rahway, NJ. He married Elizabeth FitzRaldolph in 1804 at Rahway. Member of PYM Indian Committee as of 1792, accompanied Sarah Emlen to New York in 1795. Died in 1856 at the age of 75.

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

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings