Jeremiah Thompson
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Jeremiah Thompson was a New York merchant, ship owner, Quaker, officer in the New York Manumission Society (dedicated to freeing slaves), and co-founder (together with five other men, four of whom were also Quakers) in 1817 of the famous "Black Ball" transatlantic packet line. He emmigrated to the United States from his native Yorkshire, England in 1801 at the age of seventeen.
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Stephen Fox, Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships, Harper Collins (2003), ISBN 0060195959, pp. 3-16
