William Dillwyn

William Dillwyn (1743, Philadelphia – 28 September 1824) was a British American-born Quaker of Welsh descent, active in the abolitionist movement in colonial America and after 1774, Great Britain. He was one of the twelve committee members of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade when it was formed in 1787. William was the son of John Dillwyn and Susanna Painter. He attended the Friends' English School of Philadelphia where he was taught by Anthony Benezet. His elder brother was George Dillwyn (1738-1820), the quaker minister Family William married Sarah Logan Smith on 19 May 1768, in Burlington County, New Jersey. Together they had a daughter Susanna, born in New Jersey, on 31 March 1769. She married Samuel Emlen on April 16, 1795. William remarried on 27 November 1777, to Sarah Weston in Tottenham, then in Middlesex. Their children were: Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855) John Crook Dillwyn (1780–1781) Judith Nickolls (Dillwyn) Bevan (1781–1868) Ann Dillwyn (1783), married Richard Dykes Alexander of Ipswich Lydia (Dillwyn) Sims (1785–1830) married John Sims – William Dillwyn Sims was their son. George Dillwyn Sarah Musgrave Dillwyn (1790) Gulielma Dillwyn (1792)