Isaac Zane Jr. (47)

Election date: 1766? (Elected to the Young Junto before April 25, 1766.)

Isaac Zane, Jr. (6 July 1743–10 August 1795) was a businessman, public official, soldier, and a member of the Young Junto, elected c. 1758. Born in Philadelphia, he relocated by 1768 to Virginia where he ran the Marlboro Iron Works outside of Middletown. There he also entered public office, serving as a magistrate, a Frederick County representative in the House of Burgesses, and a delegate to several Virginia conventions. Zane’s involvement in the American Revolution ranged from fulfilling large iron orders for the Continental Congress to sheltering exiled Philadelphia Quakers. Interested in literature and science, he had a large library and kept up a healthy correspondence with figures like Thomas Jefferson, who visited Zane’s iron works. At the end of his life, Zane briefly served as a brigadier general in the state militia during the Whiskey Rebellion. (PI)



Member(s): Isaac Zane Jr.
47.001
To the committee of grievances : the assembly having referred to your immediate consideration the memorial and address presented to the House on behalf of the religious society called Quakers on the 5th of the 11th month last; the weighty subject thereof we apprehend claims your serious and deliberate attention, as it contains our objections to the penal laws now in force, which manifestly infringe the most essential of privileges, liberty of conscience, and give licence to men of corrupt principles and conduct to exercise the most rigid persecution on their innocent neighbours, and other peaceable inhabitants, exceeding any thing of the kind we have known or heard of within the present century.
Creator(s):
Zane, Isaac, 1743-1795 (Author)
Publication:
[Philadelphia]: Printed by John Dunlap, [1780]
Subjects:
Quakers -- Persecutions -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800. | Dissenters, Religious -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800. | Freedom of religion -- Pennsylvania -- Early works to 1800. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Early works to 1800.
Record Source:
LOC
References:
Evans 43919
APS Subjects:
Politics | Religion
Editions:
1x 1780
Editions Note:
One edition.
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