Martha Sharpless

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Other Names: Martha Jefferis

Assumed Gender: Female

Birth Date: 1775

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1854

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Society of Friends

Notes: Daughter of Joshua Sharpless, born in 1775. Married Cheyney Jefferis in 1810 at Birmingham. Martha Jefferis and her brother, Nathan, were Matron and Superintendant at Westtown from 1836 until 1843. Recipient of a letter from her sister Rachel Coope in 1806

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