Last name | Savery |
First name | William |
Display name | William Savery |
Birth date | 1750 |
Death date | 1804 |
Birth place | Philadelphia |
Death place | Philadelphia |
Gender | m |
Affiliations | Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee |
Bio notes | Quaker minister and tanner. Son of William Savery (1721-87). Acknowledged a minister in 1781; ministerial travels in U.S., Canada, Europe. Mission to northwest Indians in Sandusky, Ohio (1793) with with Jacob Lindley, Joseph Moore, and William Hartshorne, and to Six Nations Indians, Canandaigua, N.Y. (1794). Member of the Indian Committee of PYM. Travelled in Europe in 1796. Married Sarah Evans, daughter of Pennell Evans of Berks Co., Pa. (1778). |
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country
Journal of Joshua Evans 1795-1796 (E)
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
Joseph Moore's Journal
Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798
Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings
Letter to John Drinker from John Parrish et. al.
Letter to John Parrish & others from Gen. McKee
Address to the Six Nations
Account of Canandaigua Treaty Negotiations
Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)
Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff
Life of Thomas Eddy
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793
Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue