A Prominent New York Quaker Pays For The Return Passage Of A Female Quaker Minister From England

DS. 1pg. 6 x 5 . September 3, 1801. New York. A manuscript document signed Elihu Doty as the captain of the ship Uncle Toby. The receipt is for bringing 1 person 2 bundles [from] Bristol 3, among other goods. The person Doty brought over was Sarah Stephenson, who, in her autobiography, wrote that she left Bristol on the Uncle Toby in 1801. On the verso, someone wrote New Bedford Massachusetts or Minturn & Bowne N. York; Bowne was a prominent Quaker family in New York, and perhaps they agreed to pay the bill to return Stephenson to the United States. The document is in fine condition. An unusual early American Quaker item.