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Last name Emlen
First name Samuel
Display name Samuel Emlen
Birth date 1730
Death date 1799
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Quaker minister and Indian Committee of PYM. Born in Philadelphia in 1730, son of Joshua and Deborah Emlen. Married Elizabeth Moode in 1764, and later Sarah Mott.Travelled with John Woolman to Europe in 1772. Signed letter to Delawares, Shawnee, Miami, and Wyandots (1795). Died in 1799.

Mentioned in:

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

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