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Willen T. Shapless, daughter of Benjamin and Amy (Cadwalader) Sharpless was born in Mercer (now Lawrence) County, PA on 10mo. 15, 1806 and died 10mo. 3, 1836, buried at Mahoning there. At Middleton (Ohio) Friends Mtg. on 10mo. 9, 1829 she married Mifflin Cadwalder, son of Johna and Ann (Cattell) Cadwalader. He was bron at Redsone, Fayette Co., PA on 7mo. 18, 1803 and died at Middleston, Columbiana Co., Ohio on 1mo. 4, 1886. He married twice more, to Sarah Wickershapm and Sarah James.
Mifflin Cadwalader was a tanner in Lawrence Co. until about 1837 when he removed to Salem, Ohio. In 1841 he moved to Middelton where he was a farmer until his later yeas whne he became a broom maker.
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3748 Jonah born 2mo. 11, 1833 and died 11mo. 7, 1855, unmarried
Sharpless Family Volume I 1966 Bart Anderson, Editor Published at West Chester, Pennsylvania 1966
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624 Benjamin Sharpless, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Talbot) Sharplss, was born 11mo. 5, 1777 probably in Middletown Twp. and died 9mo. 1845 in Mercer Co., PA (now Lawrence Co., PA). In Fayette Co., PA in 5mo. 1801 he married Amy Cadwalader, daughter of Septimus and Sarah Cadwalader. She died 3mo. 31, 1855.Benjamin Shaprless received a certificate from Chester to Westland Mo. Mtg. 6mo. 27, 1791. He learned the blacksmith trade at Brownsville, Fayette Co., and in 1804, removed to Big Beaver Creek, Mercer Co., PA taking a cerrificate from Redstone to Middleton Mo. Mtg., dated 3mo. 30, 1804. In 1816, his mother was said to be living with him.