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Last name Ricketson
First name Shadrach
Display name Shadrach Ricketson
Birth date 1768
Death date 1839
Birth place nycit
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Quaker physician. b. NYC; staunch advocate of vaccination for smallpox. Member of NYYM Indian Committee as of 1799, appointed to visit Brotherton, Stockbridge, and Oneida Indians in 1809.
Data notes birth date is approximate

Mentioned in:

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

Reports of the Indian Committee to New York Yearly Meeting, 1795-1806