White Matlack (October 7, 1745;

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– 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

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. 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

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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

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for their support of the

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. 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

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. In 1787, the society founded the

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. He died at Bay Side, near

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on Long Island, aged 80.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matlack, White 1745 births 1824 deaths American Quakers American abolitionists 18th-century Quakers 19th-century Quakers American watchmakers (people) American silversmiths Quaker abolitionists People from Haddonfield, New Jersey People from Flushing, Queens People of colonial New Jersey People of the Province of New York People of New Jersey in the American Revolution Members of the New York Manumission Society