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(2), a Quaker philanthropist, was brother of James and John, and grandson of Phineas, who came over with Penn, and settled near the Falls of Delaware. ISRAEL, his grandson, a man of eloquence and liberality, devoted the latter part of his life to acts of benevolence, especially to the Indians. He died at Philadelphia in 1779, aged 63 years.