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Last name Wilson
First name William
Display name William Wilson
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee, Chesterfield Friends meeting, Haddonfield Friends meeting
Bio notes Quaker, member of PYM Indian Committee, signed letters in 1793-1795. Became a member of the Society of Friends at Chesterfield in 1759, three years after his wife, Abigail, acknowledged her marriage out-of-unity. Granted certificate to Haddonfield in 1760, and later moved to Burlington and then to Upper Springfield.

Mentioned in:

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

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