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Last name Wright
First name Jonathan
Display name Jonathan Wright
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Committee on Indian Concerns, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends
Bio notes Son of John Wright and Elizabeth of Menallen, married Susannah Griffith in 1770. Appointed Clerk at Menallen in 1780 and Elder the same year. Member of the BYM Indian Committee, appointed to go to Ohio to meet with Delawares (1796). Certificate to Pipe Creek in 1796, returned to Manallen, and then went to Gunpowder Monthly Meeting.

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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

Joseph Moore's Journal