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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).

Mentioned in:

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