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Last name Biddle
First name Owen
Display name Owen Biddle
Birth date 1737
Death date 1799
Death place phila
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings. , Free Quakers
Bio notes Appointed to the Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. 1792-95. Son of Sarah Owen and John Biddle. Married Sarah Parke. Philadelphia clock and watch maker. Founding member of Free Quakers. Disowned by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for war efforts; acknowledged in 1783.

Mentioned in:

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

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

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

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom