Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745 – 1834), Philadelphia merchant in Revolutionary times
Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London.
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Fisher eventually took over most of the business from his father and brothers, continuing for the rest of his life to run the packet line to London.
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Many Quakers and even some of his family opposed his strong stand against authority and the revolutionary fervor, and at one point he was threatened to be "read out of Meeting" (disowned).
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She was tall and beautiful, and because Quakers at that time were restricted, as were many other denominations, to marrying "within the Meeting", her choices for marrying in the Newport area were limited.
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They were eventually pardoned and allowed to return to Philadelphia by order of George Washington and the Congress after the British evacuated.
Fisher's son Samuel Rowland Fisher, his wife Hannah Rodman Fisher, and their three children, Sarah, Deborah, and Thomas, spent their summers in the house during the years 1793-1834.
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