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Last name Scattergood
First name Thomas
Display name Thomas Scattergood
Birth date 1748
Death date 1814
Birth place Burlington
Death place Philadelphia
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, Burlington Friends meeting, New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Quaker minister, abolitionist, hatter, and tanner. Son of Joseph Scattergood (1714-c. 1754) and Rebecca Watson Scattergood. 1765 transferred from Burlington Monthly Meeting to Philadelphia. Married (1772) Elizabeth Bacon; married (1783) Sarah Hoskins (d. 1832). In 1780 made an Overseer of his meeting. Ministerial travels in England (1784-1800); involved with Westtown School (aft. 1800).

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Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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