White Matlack
Template:Short description White Matlack (October 7, 1745; Haddonfield, New Jersey – January 7, 1824) was a New York Quaker and abolitionist. He was born to Elizabeth Martha Burr Haines and Timothy Matlack: a couple that had both lost their first spouses. His grandparents were William Matlack and Mary Hancock; and Henry Burr and Elizabeth Hudson. His siblings were Sybil, Elizabeth, Titus, Seth, Josiah and Timothy Matlack.
He married Mary Hawhurst[1] on March 6, 1768.[2] They had four children; White, Timothy, Mary, and Hannah.[3]
White was a watchmaker and silversmith in New York City from around 1769 to 1775. In 1775, he also worked in Philadelphia.[4] Then he ran a brewery located not far from the Fraunces Tavern. By the 1780s he moved into steel manufacturing.[5]
In 1782, he and Isaac Howell signed a document titled The memorial and remonstrance of Isaac Howell and White Matlack, in behalf of themselves, and others, who have been disowned by the people called Quakers, &c.[6] White and his brother Timothy had been disowned by Orthodox Quakers for their support of the American Revolution. They formed a group with others called the Society of Free Quakers.[7]
In 1786, he signed a letter to the Senate and assembly of the State of New York, against the shipping of African slaves through the port of New York.[5]
Three years later he became a member of the New York Manumission Society. In 1787, the society founded the African Free School.
He died at Bay Side, near Flushing[8] on Long Island, aged 80.[9]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Some sources have Hawxhurst
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b George Washington Miniature History Detectives
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Military navigation".
- Pages with script errors
- 1745 births
- 1824 deaths
- American Quakers
- Abolitionists from New York City
- 18th-century Quakers
- 19th-century Quakers
- American watchmakers (people)
- American silversmiths
- Quaker abolitionists
- People from Haddonfield, New Jersey
- People from Flushing, Queens
- People from colonial New Jersey
- People from colonial New York
- People of New Jersey in the American Revolution