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Embree, Thomas, 1755-1833


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  • Variants

    • Embry, Thomas, 1755-1833
    • Embrey, Thomas, 1755-1833

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    • Birth Date

        1755

    • Death Date

        1833

    • Birth Place

        Berks County (Pa.)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Antislavery movements

      Orthography and spelling


    • Occupation

      (itoamc) Blacksmiths

      (itoamc) Iron manufacturers

      (itoamc) Entrepreneurs

      (itoamc) Political activists

      (itoamc) Surveyors

      (itoamc) Quakers

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    • Sources

      • found: His Orthography corrected, 1813:t.p. (Thomas Embree)
      • found: Portrait and biographical album of Henry County, Iowa, 1888:p. 551 (Thomas Embree; compiled and printed a phoenetic spelling book; moved to east Tennessee from South Carolina at an early day; erected an iron furnace with sons Elihu and Elijah; removed to Ohio; surveyor; operated mills on the Little Miami River, near Oldtown; his grandson Isaac T. Gibson moved to Salem, Iowa)
      • found: Biggers, J. The United States of Appalachia, 2006:p. 86 (Thomas Embree; Quaker; ironworker; blacksmith; entrepreneur; active in local political affairs; in 1797 wrote a letter to the Knoxville gazette calling for the gradual abolition of slavery; active in Pennsylvania, Virginia, N. Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio; father of Elihu and Elijah Embree)
      • found: Earlham College, via WWW, Mar. 19, 2014:Friends Collection and Earlham College Archives (Thomas Embree, 1755-1833; Quaker; ironmaster; b. Berks Co., Penn.; moved with his parents first to Orange County, N.C., then to the Bush River Quaker settlement in Newberry Co., S.C.; late in the 1770s the family moved to the Nolachucky settlement, Washington Co., Tenn.; m. Esther Coulson, 1781; lived in Virginia and Tenn.; in 1805 moved to Greene County, Ohio, settling near Oldtown; moved to Logan Co., Ohio in 1824 but remained only a year before returning to Greene Co., where he died; son Elihu Embree, who remained in Tenn., published the Manumission Intelligencier, later called the Emancipator)
      • found: Ancestry, via WWW, Mar. 19, 2014:Barber Family Tree (Thomas Embree; b. 31 July 1755, Cane Creek, N.C., son of Moses Embree and Margaret Elleman; d. Aug. 1833, Green, Adams, Ohio [sic])
      • found: MWA/NAIP files, Mar. 20, 2014(access point: Embree, Thomas, 1755-1833; usage: Thomas Embree; variants: Thomas Embry; Thomas Embrey)

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    • Change Notes

      • 2014-03-20: new
      • 2014-04-03: revised

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