Joshua Sharpless

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Other Names: Sharples

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1779

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1860

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Son of Joshua Sharpless (1747-1826) and Edith Yarnall Sharples; b. Kennett Twp., Chester Co.; to Phila.; carpenter. m. Philadelphia Drinker at Mulberry Mtg., Phila. (1808); six children. To farm in Little Britain Twp., Chester Co. (c. 1822). Recipient of an 1805 letter from his sister Rachel Coope.

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