Warner Mifflin
BIRTH
Aug 21, 1745
Accomack County, Virginia
DEATH
October 16, 1798
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FAMILY
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Mifflin, Warner
(1745-1798)
Warner Mifflin was a Delaware Quaker and one of the early American abolitionists. During and after the Revolution he campaigned against slavery, freed the people he enslaved, and petitioned state and federal governments for emancipation.
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WIFE
Anne Emlen Mifflin
(1755-1815)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Warner Mifflin Marker | 16 Quaker Hill Rd, Magnolia, DE 19962 | MARKER |
DIED:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oct 16, 1798
Warner Mifflin was born on Aug 21, 1745 in Accomack County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Warner Mifflin with work or public activity as a farmer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Warner Mifflin died on Oct 16, 1798 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.