| Last name | Stewardson |
| First name | Thomas |
| Display name | Thomas Stewardson |
| Birth date | 1762 |
| Death date | 1841 |
| Gender | m |
| Affiliations | Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee, Philadelphia Friends meeting |
| Bio notes | Philadelphia merchant, agent, and Quaker elder. Born in England, he moved to Philadelphia in the 1790s. He married Anna Head at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1796. Member of PYM Indian Committee, accompanied Isaac Coates to visit Indians in 1799 and 1803. From 1799 to 1801 he was part of a deputation appointed to visit Friends on the frontiers of New York and Canada. By 1808 he worked on the Meeting for Sufferings, in 1809 he traveled with Wiliam Allinson to Catawissa, and by 1816 (or perhaps earlier) worked on the Committee of Indian Affairs. |
| Data notes | Birth date is approximate |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
Halliday Jackson's Book [of Corrrespondence], Genesinguhta, 1798-1800
Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806
Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country
Joseph Clark's Account of a Journey to the Indian Country, 1797
Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)
Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal A)
Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal B)
Life of Thomas Eddy
William Allinson Diary, Volume 1
William Allinson Diary, Volume 3
Joel Swayne Diary