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Jeremiah Thompson (1784–1835) was a 
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New York
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merchant
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, ship owner, Quaker
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, officer in the New York Manumission Society
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(dedicated to freeing slaves). He was co-founder in 1817 of the famous Black Ball Line together with five other men (four of whom were also Quakers
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) including Isaac Wright. He emigrated to the United States
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from his native Yorkshire
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, England
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in 1801 at the age of seventeen.
References
*Stephen Fox, ''Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships'', Harper Collins (2003), , pp. 3–16Page at Neptune's Needle - Database of American Maritime History
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