Of tangential note, Washington Butcher's family were Quakers and settled first in New Jersey by a few years before Penn set up shop in Philadelphia. Washington's mother Susannah Tyson Butcher first interred in the Friends Western Burial Ground, 16th and Race sts. (1817-1922), in 1838. Probably reinterred with husband Amos Wright Butcher in Laurel Hill in 1843 where Washington is buried. Washington's oldest son in the business was a pillar of the First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch sts.. Perhaps just a coincidence. But this is a period of time of Abolition with Brits freeing their slaves in 1838. A lot of old Quaker families split along economic lines in border states like Pennsylvania and Maryland over the issue of Emancipation.
Of tangential note, Washington Butcher's family were Quakers and settled first in New Jersey by a few years before Penn set up shop in Philadelphia. Washington's mother Susannah Tyson Butcher first interred in the Friends Western Burial Ground, 16th and Race sts. (1817-1922), in 1838. Probably reinterred with husband Amos Wright Butcher in Laurel Hill in 1843 where Washington is buried. Washington's oldest son in the business was a pillar of the First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch sts.. Perhaps just a coincidence. But this is a period of time of Abolition with Brits freeing their slaves in 1838. A lot of old Quaker families split along economic lines in border states like Pennsylvania and Maryland over the issue of Emancipation.
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