Deborah Norris Logan

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Overview

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Deborah Norris Logan born Philadelphia, PA October 29, 1761 (d. 1831). Quaker chronicler of her husband Dr. George Logan’s peace missions to France, 1798, England, 1808. The first succeeded in freeing US ships but brought about the Logan Act, barring private peacemaking; the second failed.

Quotations

On the War of 1812: “A war [could] have been prevented, which (not to count the treasure expended) has cost the lives of many brave and faithful citizens, and destroyed the hopes of many families, besides leaving the bloody footprints of hatred and revenge, which it will take years of peace and philanthropy, to obliterate.” (Memoir of Dr. George Logan, p. 116; portrait wikipedia)