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Last name Smith
First name Samuel
Display name Samuel Smith
Birth date 1737
Death date 1817
Death place phila
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Middletown Friends meeting, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Northern District, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Son of Robert and Phebe Smith; married Mary Woolston in 1763 at Middletown Monthly Meeting. Lived in Philadelphia and was a member of Philadelphia MM for the Northern District. First appeared in the ministry in 1770; in 1774 travelled in New England; in 1789-91 spent two years in Great Britain and Ireland; in 1795 and 1797 travelled again in New England; in 1800-1801 again visited Great Britain.

Mentioned in:

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

Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff

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