White Matlack, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

White Matlack

abolitionist

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1745

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1824

Profession: watchmaker

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About White Matlack

  • White Matlack (October 7, 1745; Haddonfield, New Jersey – January 7, 1824) 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 was a New York Quaker and abolitionist. He married Mary Hawhurst on March 6, 1768.
  • They had four children; White, Timothy, Mary, and Hannah.White was a watchmaker and silversmith in New York City from around 1769 to 1775.
  • In 1775, he also worked in Philadelphia.
  • Then he ran a brewery located not far from the Fraunces Tavern.
  • By the 1780s he moved into steel manufacturing.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.
  • 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.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.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 on Long Island, aged 80.

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