Illustrations
Editorial Apparatus
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One
Before the Revolution
Warner Mifflin’s First Deed of Manumission, ca. mid-1766
To John Pemberton, September 22, 1774
Warner Mifflin’s Second Deed of Manumission, October 22, 1774
Warner Mifflin’s Third Deed of Manumission, January 9, 1775
Part Two
The Revolutionary Years
Warner Mifflin’s Freedom Pass for Manumitted Slave, February 15, 1777
To Unknown Friend, October 16, 1778
To Alexander Huston, January 17, 1779
Mifflin’s Statement Concerning His Refusal to Use and Circulate Continental Currency, August, 1779
From Rebecca Jones, August, 1779
To Nicholas Waln, December 1780
To Henry Drinker, January 11, 1781
To Moses Brown, July 26, 1781
To John Willis, Elias Hicks, and Others, July 26, 1781
To French Naval Officers at Newport, Rhode Island, [after August 6, 1781]
To James Pemberton, August 26[?], 1781
To John Pemberton, August 26, 1781
To Moses Brown, October 3, 1781
To Thomas McKean, November 5, 1781
From David Cooper, December 1781
To John Pemberton, December 5, 1781
Some Remarks Proposed for the Consideration of the People of Virginia, and Particularly of Those in the Legislature and Executive Powers of Government, ca. May 1782
To the Speaker and House of Delegates in Virginia, The Memorial of a Committee of the People Called Quakers, May 29, 1782
To John Parrish, August 18, 1782
To Henry Drinker, September 8, 1782
To John Parrish, October 31, 1782
To John Parrish, January 6, 1783
To James Pemberton, January 6, 1783
To James Pemberton, January 19, 1783
To Henry Drinker, January 19, 1783
To Nicholas Van Dyke, July 16, 1783
To the United States in Congress Assembled, The Address of the People Called Quakers, October 4, 1783
To John Parrish, October 12, 1783
To Nathanael Greene, October 21, 1783
From Nathanael Greene, [late November 1783]
To John Parrish, November 4, 1783
Part Three
After the Revolution
To James Pemberton, December 9, 1783
To John Parrish, December 14, 1783
To John Parrish, May 13, 1784
To James Pemberton, August 17, 1784
To John Parrish, August 27, 1784
To Henry Drinker?, November 16, 1784
To James Pemberton, December 11, 1784
To James Pemberton, January 16, 1785
To James Pemberton, February 16, 1785
To John Parrish, August 22, 1785
To the General Assembly of the Delaware State~The Memorial and Address of the People Call'd Quakers Inhabitants of This State, December 27, 1785
To Daniel Mifflin, June 6, 1786
To John Dickinson, August 11, 1786
To Governor William Smallwood, August 31, 1786
To James Pemberton, December 12, 1786
To James Pemberton, February 3, 1787
To John Parrish, February 9, 1787
To John Parrish, April 30, 1787
To Abigail Parrish, May 13, 1787
To Abigail Parrish, June 4, 1787
To John Parrish, June 19, 1787
To John Parrish, June 29, 1787
To the Archbishop of Canterbury, June 30, 1787
To John Parrish, July 6, 1787
Testimonial for Negro Grace Hicks, August 8, 1787
To Edward Stabler?, October 14, 1787
To Moses Brown, December 3, 1787
To John Parrish, December 13, 1787
To Thomas McKean, December 14, 1787
To John Parrish, December 16, 1787
To James Pemberton, December 21, 1787
Part Four
The Early Republic
To John Parrish, April 5, 1788
To John Parrish, April 16, 1788
To John Parrish, April 19, 1788
To John Parrish, May 11, 1788
To James Pemberton, May 28, 1788
To John Parrish, June 23, 1788
To James Pemberton, November 17, 1788
To John Parrish, November 19, 1788
To John Parrish, November 29, 1788
To James Pemberton, December 29, 1788
From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, ca. late 1788
To William Tilghman, February 24, 1789
Appointment of Committee by the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to Prepare an Antislavery Petition to Congress, September 29, 1789
Memorial of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to Congress, October 3, 1789
Appointment of Committee to Present Petition to Congress, October 3, 1789
To James Pemberton, December 28, 1789
To Henry Drinker, February 1790
Testimony to the House of Representatives Select Committee, February 15, 1790
To Abiel Foster, Chairman of the House Select Committee, ca. February 17–26, 1790
Queries to the House Select Committee, March 2, 1790
To William Loughton Smith, March 10, 1790
To President George Washington, March 12, 1790
To Members of Congress, March 16, 1790
To John Parrish, April 10, 1790
To George Thatcher, May 4, 1790
To Members of the House of Representatives, June 2, 1790
To Henry Drinker, June 3, 1790
From George Thatcher, June 12, 1790
To Henry Drinker?, June 15, 1790
To Benjamin Rush, June 19, 1790
From Henry Drinker, July 15, 1790
To President Washington, February 20, 1791
To the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Meeting for Sufferings, June 30, 1791
To Henry Drinker, July 14, 1791
To John Parrish, October 10, 1791
To the General Assembly of the Delaware State: The Petition and Address of Warner Mifflin, October 18, 1791
To the Delaware Constitutional Convention, December 22, 1791
To the General Convention of the Delaware State, December 27, 1791
From Joseph Galloway, April 10, 1792
To John Parrish, May 6, 1792
To the Delaware Constitutional Convention, May 23, 1792
To Henry Drinker, June 27, 1792
To Henry Drinker, August 6, 1792
To the President, Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States. The Address of the People Called Quakers, November 17, 1792
To President Washington and Congress, November 23, 1792
To George Washington, December 12, 1792
To John Parrish, January 21, 1793
A Serious Expostulation with the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, Philadelphia, 1793
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Delaware State, January 24, 1793
To the King of Spain, April 29, 1793
To Moses Brown, June 15, 1793
To George Thatcher, July 10, 1793
To John Parrish, December 2, 1793
To the Citizens of the United States from the American Convention of Abolitionist Societies, January 6, 1794
To Moses Brown, January 24, 1794
To John Parrish, January 24, 1794
“Awful Considerations On the Probability of Judgments Coming On the Land Because of the Injuries Attending Slavery of Fellow-Men,” July 10, 1794
To Susanna Mifflin, November 2, 1794
To Henry Drinker, November 12, 1794
To Henry Drinker and Thomas Morris, November 24, 1794
Mifflin Petition as Next Friend of Jonathan Negroe, December 3, 1794
To Henry Drinker, December 14, 1794
To Henry Drinker, January 21, 1795
To John Parrish, May 17, 1795
To the General Assembly of the State of Maryland, November 1795
To Henry Drinker, December 30, 1795
Mifflin’s Resolution on Kidnapping of Free Blacks for Consideration of the Delaware Senate and House of Representatives, February 5, 1796
To John Parrish, February 13, 1796
To Moses Brown, March 26, 1796
To John Parrish, April 9, 1796
The Defence of Warner Mifflin Against Aspersion cast on him on Account of his endeavours to promote Righteousness, Mercy, and Peace among Mankind, Philadelphia, 1796
To Henry Drinker, September 4, 1796
To John Parrish, April 16, 1797
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress, September 28, 1797
From Henry Drinker, November 15, 1797
To John Parrish, November 25, 1797
To John Parrish and Thomas Stewardson, December 3, 1797
From the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Committee to the House Committee of Fifth Congress, January 22, 1798
To John Parrish, February 21, 1798
To Henry Drinker, [ca. March 25, 1798]
To Henry Drinker, April 1, 1798
To Henry Drinker, May 4, 1798
To Henry Drinker, June 16, 1798
To Henry Drinker, June 26, 1798
To His Children, July 7, 1798
From Samuel Hopkins, July 28, 1798
To John Parrish, September 30, 1798
To John Adams, September 24, 1798
From George Churchman and Jacob Lindley to John Adams, January 17, 1801
From John Adams to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, January 24, 1801
To John Parrish, undated but probably 1790s
Part Five
In Memoriam
Death Notice, October 22, 1798
Death Notice, October 23, 1798
A Brief Account of the Late Warner Mifflin, by Ann Emlen Mifflin, October 25, 1799
Testimony of Motherkiln Monthly Meeting
Testimony Concerning Warner Mifflin, by His Intimate Friend and Survivor, George Churchman
Richard Allen Testimony for Warner Mifflin, 1799
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index
