Sarah Emlen

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Female

Birth Date: 1787

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1849

Death Place: West Chester

Affiliations: Chester Friends meeting , Society of Friends

Notes: Quaker minister. Born in Upper Freehold, New Jersey, in 1787, the daughter of Cadwallader and Phoebe Foulke. Moved to Wheeling and married William Farquhar who was lost on the Ohio RIver. Married James Emlen in 1816. Recorded as a minister in 1828 and travelled in the ministry throughout the United States and in Great Britain. Died in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1849.

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