Anne Emlen Mifflin

{{Short description|Quaker minister and activist in early America}}

Anne Emlen Mifflin (April 30, 1755 - March 22, 1815){{cite web |last1=Congress |first1=The Library of |title=Mifflin, Ann Emlen - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies {{!}} Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress) |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92040859.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=29 October 2023}} was a Quaker minister, abolitionist, and social reformer in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.{{cite web | title=REVIEWED: Our Beloved Friend: The Life and Writings of Anne Emlen Mifflin | website=Friends Journal | date=1 September 2023 | url=https://www.friendsjournal.org/book/our-beloved-friend-the-life-and-writings-of-anne-emlen-mifflin/ | access-date=8 November 2023}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-nDEAAAQBAJ&dq=Philadelphia+Society+for+Free+Instruction+of+Indigent+Boys%2C&pg=PA120|title=Our Beloved Friend: The Life and Writings of Anne Emlen Mifflin|first1=Gary B.|last1=Nash|first2=Emily M.|last2=Teipe|date=October 5, 2022|publisher=Penn State Press|isbn=9780271096421 |via=Google Books}} Bryn Mawr has a collection of her papers including a diary.{{Cite web|url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-1288|title=Collection: Emlen and Mifflin Family collection | Archives & Manuscripts|website=archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu}}

She was a member of the Emlen family in Philadelphia, daughter of George and Ann Emlen.{{cite book |last1=Justice |first1=Hilda |title=Life and ancestry of Warner Mifflin, Friend--philanthropist--patriot; |date=1905 |publisher=Philadelphia, Ferris & Leach |pages=16–17, 228 |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeancestryofwa03just/page/16/mode/2up?q=Emlen |access-date=29 October 2023}} Her brother James Emlen was a signatory to the Treaty of Canadaigua in 1794.{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/HAVERFORD_HC.MC.1288|title=Emlen and Mifflin Family collection - Philadelphia Area Archives|website=findingaids.library.upenn.edu}}

She was married to Warner Mifflin in 1788, after his first wife died in 1786.{{cite web |last1=Faulkner |first1=Carol |title=Creating an Abolitionist Genealogy |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/711862 |website=Reviews in American History |access-date=29 October 2023 |pages=561–566 |date=2018}} They travelled together and convinced the Society of Friends to allow African Americans full fellowship. They had sons Samuel E. and Lemuel.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-E7AQAAMAAJ&dq=anne+emlen+mifflin&pg=PA228|title=Life and Ancestry of Warner Mifflin: Friend--philanthropist--patriot|date=October 28, 1905|publisher=Ferris & Leach|via=Google Books}} After Warner Mifflin's death she travelled, preached and was involved in Quaker education and missions to American Indians. She left her two boys in the care of her mother.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5le-SIpDIuMC&dq=anne+emlen+mifflin&pg=PA32|title=Life After Death: Widows in Pennsylvania, 1750-1850|first=Lisa|last=Wilson|date=October 28, 1992|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=9780877228837 |via=Google Books}}

She died March 22, 1815, and her will of 1811 left her estate to her two sons.