Timothy Matlack

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Timothy Matlack (1730–April 14, 1829) was an American merchant and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1780.

Timothy Matlack was one of the first Free Quakers. He was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1730. He was married to Ellen Yarnall, daughter of Mordecai and Ann Yarnall. Timothy Matlack was a member of the Council of Safety in Philadelphia prior to, and throughout, the American Revolutionary War. He was the scribe who actually penned the United States Declaration of Independence.

Timothy Matlack was a virtual firebrand for the Revolutionary cause. He was a member of the Shirt Battalion and fought at the Battle of Trenton. He worked arduously to try to get provisions for the newly-formed Army. Matlack warned Gen. George Washington in a letter about the treachery of Benedict Arnold, and presided at Arnold's Court Martial in Philadelphia.

Dr. Asa Matlack Stackhouse authored a paper about Matlack presented to the Gloucester County Historical Society in Haddonfield, NJ in 1908 and privately printed in book form in 1910.

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