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Last name Lightfoot
First name Thomas
Display name Thomas Lightfoot
Birth date 1742
Death date 1821
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Maiden Creek Friends meeting, Exeter Friends meeting
Bio notes Quaker family, born in Chester County; moved to Exeter Meeting in 1755, where his father, Jacob Lightfoot, helped found Maiden Creek Mtg., and his mother, Mary Bonsall Lightfoot, was a minister. Married Hannah Wright at Maiden Creek Meeting House in 1774. Died in 1821, an Elder, aged 79.

Mentioned in:

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

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

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

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

William Allinson Diary, Volume 1

William Allinson Diary, Volume 3