David Bacon journal

David Bacon (1729-1809), the son of John Bacon, was a Philadelphia hatter and a Quaker elder who visited Canandaigua, New York, in the fall of 1794, to be present at a treaty with the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederation). Bacon married Mary Trotter, the daughter of Joseph Trotter, in the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1751. The couple had six children: Susan P., Joseph, Charles W., Edmund P., Mary, and Anna Bacon.

Prior to the creation of Indian Committees for the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York, the Haudenosaunee informed the Meeting for Sufferings of Philadelphia was informed that they wanted Quakers to be present at the treaty of the Six Nations at Canandaigua. The Meeting sent David Bacon, William Savery, John Parrish, and James Emlen to attend the treaty.

The Treaty at Canandaigua concluded on November 11, 1794, deciding the territory to be left to the tribes of the Six Nations, who had fought against the colonies in the Revolutionary War. The Six Nations, also known as the Iroquois, included the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk), Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and the Tuscarora nations.