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Lcnaf uri http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003019156
Last name Taylor
First name Johnathan
Display name Jonathan Taylor
Birth date 1768
Death date 1831
Birth place Bucks County
Death place Ireland
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends
Bio notes Son of Timothy and Letitia Taylor; married Ann Schofield in 1768 and moved to Loudoun Co., VA. 1797 recognized a minister. 1800 went to Ohio to live, with his wife held the first Friends meeting in Ohio. Finally settled at Short Creek, Ohio. Hosted Gerard Hopkins in 1804. In 1818 went to Washington, DC in interests of the Indians. 1828 was clerk of Ohio Yearly Meeting. Visited as a minister most of the meetings in the United States; in 1831 went to Ireland and died there.

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A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804