Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 4th and West Streets in Wilmington, Delaware in the Quaker Hill neighborhood. The meeting has a membership of about 400 and is part of the Ph
Wilmington Meetinghouse
Thomas Garrett
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Thomas Garrett was an American abolitionist and assisted in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. He helped more than 2,500 African Americans escape slavery.
Friends Meetinghouse (Wilmington, Delaware)
…the Alapocas neighborhood of Wilmington. John Dickinson, the "penman of the Revolution," is buried in the adjoining burial ground, as are abolitionist Thomas Garrett and Delaware Governor Caleb P. Bennett. Garrett, one of the best known conductors on the Underground Railroad, was a member of the meeting, and lived…
Garrett around 1850
Thornfield, his boyhood home in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania