found: His Doctrines of Friends, 1825:t.p. (Elisha Bates)
found: Quaker history, Autumn 1969:p. 83, etc. (Elisha Bates; early in life in charge of Quaker School in York County, Va.; wrote antislavery pamphlet; 1817 removed with family to Mount Pleasant, Ohio; assistant clerk and later clerk of Ohio Yearly Meeting; Dec. 1818 bought antislavery newspaper, The Philanthropist; March 1821 began publishing new periodical, The Moral advocate; leader of the Orthodox Ohio Yearly Meeting; 1837 disowned by Ohio Yearly Meeting; b. 7/10/1781)
found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861; note: Mount Pleasant, Ohio author, printer and publisher; 1844 became Methodist preacher but returned to Quakers after a year; d. 8/5/1861)
