Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Samuel Rowland FISHER
[The Joshua Fisher Family Records, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol XIII, pp 254-5]
S. R. Fisher [son of Joshua Fisher here] was one of our oldest Citizens. His Great Grand Father John Fisher emigrated with William Penn in the year 1682--on his first visit to his woodland domain and shared the fortunes and privations of the infant colony.
In the subsequent years, his Father Joshua Fisher was distinguished for vigorous and versatile intellect and was respected for his integrity, benevolence and usefulness.
As a merchant--he established the First Line of the Packet Ships to London, and in the regular pursuit of his commercial business he acquired an honest Fortune.
As a practical mathematician he was surpassed by no man of that era in the Colony as a Topographer. His Chart of Delaware Bay so long relied on for its accuracy procured him the emphatic thanks of The Colonial Assembly.
As a Father he reared a numerous family in reputation and among the considerate citizens for Philadelphia he was the first to recognize the injustice and inhumanity of The Enslavement of the Africans--the manumissions of the Negroes on his Plantations, bear date, before the evils of slavery were acknowledged even by the members of his own peace professing society.
As a member of the Society of Friends--he professed and practised during a long life the irrefutable Philosophy of Penn and the first founders, free from the contracted notions, and puritanical scheming with which its self assuming exclusive interpreters having so often disgraced it--
In his Youth an indefatigable Hunter he became personally acquainted with the aborigines around him for whom he always cherished a warm interest--His first commercial enterprise was a shipment of furs to London. From an Indian trader, and exporter of these products of the Forest, he became an extensive merchant--and at the period of the Revolution the Mercantile House of Joshua Fisher and Sons was scarcely second in its responsibility to any firm in the colonies.
During this period, the neutrality of The House, as Quakers, was variously misconstrued by the Subalterns though always respected when made known and understood by General Washington and by Alexander Hamilton in several requisitions made upon it for supplies--In the course of the War their ships were burnt to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy, and property to a large amount taken for the service of the respective armies--and destroyed in the course of their alternate contending occupation.
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