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Title: |
Embree Family Papers |
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Collection Numbers: |
Accession No. 61 |
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Physical Description: |
0.10 linear foot |
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Creator: |
Emilou McDorman |
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Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University |
Provenance: Copies of the papers of the Embree Family Collection were given to the Archives of Appalachia by Emilou McDorman on September 9, 1979.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Processing Information: David Goodin completed processing, and the papers were opened for research on September 26, 1979.
The Embree Family Collection includes a brief history of the Moses Embree, III family written by Emilou McDorman. Ms. McDorman traces the family from Robert Embree to the grandchildren of Moses Embree, III.
Robert Embree appears in New Haven Colony records in 1644. Later he moved to Stamford, Connecticut, where he lived until his death in 1656. Robert's son, Moses Embree, was born at Stamford in 1652. After Robert's death, the family moved to Hempstead, Long Island, birthplace of Moses Embree, II. According to Quaker Records, in 1725 Moses Embree, II resided in Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. His son, Moses Embree, III, born in 1719, grew to manhood in Oxford Township and moved to Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1745. In 1752, he married Margaret Elleman, and in 1753 Moses Embree, III, his wife, and young family moved to Alamance County, North Carolina. Later, Moses acquired land in East Tennessee, where he built mills and ironworks. Thomas Embree, son of Moses Embree, III, lived in Washington County, Tennessee, where he had a stonemason build a limestone house which still stand at Limestone, Tennessee.
Thomas later moved to Ohio, where he build mills and a nail factory. After Thomas sold the Ohio factory and mills, his son Elijah returned to Tennessee, joining his brother Elihu in the purchase of the Pactolus Ironworks located in Sullivan County, Tennessee. In Jonesborough, Tennessee, Elihu Embree published the Manumission Intelligencer, later called the Emancipator, the first newspaper devoted to the abolition of slavery in the United States. [The journal was called the Manumission Intelligencer in 1819; in 1820 it was entitled the Emancipator.] After Elihu Embree died on December 4, 1820, the Emancipator was taken over by Benjamin Lundy who moved to Ohio and published the journal under the title The Genius of Universal Emancipation in the years 1821-22. In 1822 Lundy move to Greeneville, Tennessee and published the Genius for two years, from 1822 through 1824. Subsequently, Lundy moved to Baltimore where he continued to publish the journal. Elijah continued to own and operate the Embree Iron Company. But perhaps the most enduring contribution of Thomas and his sons, Elihu and Elijah, was in the area of slave emancipation. True to their Quaker principles, they opposed slavery and served the abolition movement through their newspapers and deeds.
The collection includes correspondence from Evan Embree, who resided on the Nolichucky River, to his uncle, Abner Elleman of Bush River, South Carolina. The correspondence deals primarily with Quaker theology and some family and local news.
Embree, Elihu, 1782-1820
Embree family
Embree, Moses
Embree, Thomas
Newspaper publishing--Tennessee, East
Slavery--Tennessee--Anti-slavery movements
Society of Friends
Washington County (Tenn)--History
This series contains a 1979 history of the Embree family by Emilou McDorman covering family activities from 1644 in New Haven Colony to 1833 in Ohio.
Series II contains a copy of an article written by Thomas Embree, April 4, 1807, directed to John Cunningham and James Cunningham entitled, "A Caution to Lawyers, Courts, and Juries," on the use of Force and Arms in indictments which were non-violent in nature.
This series contains correspondence between Evan Embree and his uncle, Abner Elleman, 1780-1787, covering family and local news and discourses on Quaker theology.
History of Moses Embree, III family, 1644-1833.
A copy of "A Caution to Lawyers, Courts, and Juries," by Thomas Embree, April 4, 1807.
3. Correspondence between Evan Embree and Abner Elleman, 1780.
4. Correspondence of Evan Embree to Abner Elleman, October, 1784.
5. Correspondence of Evan Embree to Abner Elleman, March 8, 1785.
6. Correspondence of Evan Embree to Abner Elleman, 1786.
7. Correspondence of Abner Elleman to Evan Embree, September 30, 1786.
8. Correspondence between Evan Embree and Abner Elleman, October 27, 1786 and April 12, 1787.
*Notation following index term indicates folder location of indexed materials, and also, at times, the page location within the folder.
Abington Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-3.
Baldwin, George: 1-1.
Boone, Daniel: 1-4; 1-5.
Berkeley County, North Carolina: 1-5.
Caesars Creek Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-18, 19.Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-4, 5.
Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-10.
Darby Creek (Goshen) Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-18.
Dicks, Zackary: 1-20.
Elleman, Abner: 3-2-5; 7-18-21; 8-30-33.Elleman, Catherine: 1-5.
Elleman, Enos: 1-4.
Elleman, John: 1-4.
Elleman, Margaret: 1-4; 1-11.
Elleman, Mary Joda: 1-4.Ellis, John: 1-13.
Ellis, Tamer Coulson: 1-13.
Emancipator: 1-16, 17.
Embree, Abigal: 1-3.
Embree, Annette Williams: 1-15.Embree, Elijah: 1-10, 14, 15, 17, 19.
Embree, Elihu: 1-10, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Embree, Elizabeth: 1-3.
Embree, Elizabeth Worley Carriger: 1-15.
Embree, Eliza: 1-14.Embree, Esther Coulson: 1-10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19.
Embree, Evan: 1-4, 19; 3-1; 4-6-10; 5-11-13; 6-14-17; 8-22-30.
Embree Ironworks: 1-16, 19.
Embree, Isaac: 1-4, 14.
Embree, Jacob: 1-4, 19.Embree, John: 1-1.
Embree, John, son of Moses Embree, II: 1-3.
Embree, John, son of Moses Embree, III: 1-4, 19.
Embree, Martha: 1-3.
Embree, Mary: 1-1.Embree, Mary, daughter of Moses Embree, III: 1-4, 19.
Embree, Mary Seaman: 1-1.
Embree, Mary Southard: 1-1, 14.
Embree, Moses: 1-1.
Embree, Moses, II: 1-1, 4.Embree, Moses, III: 1-1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11.
Embree, Rachel: 1-10, 15, 18, 19.
Embree, Rebecca: 1-4, 19.
Embree, Robert: 1-1.
Embree, Robert, Jr.: 1-1.Embree, Samuel: 1-1.
Embree, Samuel, son of Moses Embree, II: 1-3.
Embree, Sara: 1-3.
Embree, Sara, daughter of Thomas Embree: 1-10, 19.
Embree, Sarah, daughter of Moses Embree, III: 1-4, 19.Embree, Thomas: 1-4, 9, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19.
Embree, Thomas, "A Caution to Lawyers, Courts and Juries": 1-13, 2.
Embreeville, Washington County, Tennessee: 1-11.
Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: 1-2, 3, 5.
Exeter Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-4.Flushing, New York: 1-1.
Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-5.
Garrison, William Lloyd: 1-18.
Genius of Universal Emancipation, The: 1-17, 18.
Greene County, Tennessee: 1-10.Green Plain Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-18.
Greenefield, Tennessee: 1-18.
Haverford Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-4.
Hempstead, Long Island, New York: 1-1.
Hinshaw, William wade: 1-2, 16.Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-9.
Knoxville Gazette: 1-12, 15.
Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-1, 3.
Lundy, Benjamin: 1-17, 18.
Manumission Intelligencer: 1-16.Manumission Societies: 1-15.
Means, Robert: 1-13.
Miami Monthly meeting, Society of Friends: 1-13, 14.
Murphy, B. H.: 1-16.
New Garden Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-10, 15.New Haven Colony: 1-1.
New Hope Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-10, 13, 14, 15.
Nolichucky River, Tennessee: 1-7, 10/
Oldtown, Greene County, Ohio: 1-3, 15.
Oley Valley, Pennsylvania: 1-4.Pactolus Ironworks: 1-15.
Pine Tree Hill (Camden), Kershaw County, South Carolina:
Rahway Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-15
Rock House, the Old (Limestone House), Limestone, Tennessee: 1-11.
Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-9, 10.Salem Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-19.
Sevier, John: 1-7.
Smith, Seth: 1-11, 19.
Spragg, Edward: 1-2.
Stamford, Connecticut: 1-1.Telford, Tennessee: 1-11.
Thorne, William: 1-15, 18.
Tuckerton, New Jersey: 1-1.
Washington College, Tennessee: 1-7.
Washington County, Tennessee: 1-5, 15, 16, 19.Watauga Association: 1-5.
Watauga (Elizabethton, Tennessee): 1-5.
Wateree Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends, see Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting, Society of friends.
Westfield Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-10, 11.
White Lick Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends: 1-19.Xenia, Ohio: 1-13
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