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Last name Thompson
First name Jeremiah
Display name Jeremiah Thompson
Birth date 1784
Death date 1835
Birth place yorks
Gender m
Affiliations New York Manumission Society, Society of Friends, New York Friends meeting
Bio notes New York merchant, ship owner, Quaker, officer in the New York Manumission Society, and co-founder in 1817 of the Black Ball Line. Emigrated to US from Yorkshire in 1801. Helped Thomas Eddy establish first Savings Bank in New York in 1819.

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Life of Thomas Eddy