Samuel Sharples - In america

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10/12/2019 at 4:26 AM

https://archive.org/stream/immigrationofiri00myer/immigrationofiri0... < one wonders if there is a connection with the late American Sharpless Quaker family and the president of Haverford College.
Looking at the argument about Quaker pacifism a century after the Sharples involvement in the English Civil war, I can only scratch my head.
"As President (of Haverford College) Sharpless points out in his valu-
able monograph,' the Society of Friends in the
struggle for independence took a neutral position
and stood firmly by their testimony against war.
They were "friends of liberty, but opposed to
war, desirous of maintaining their civil rights, but
by other means than illegality and revolution (...) "

It is forgivable that there is no reference to the prior Quaker involvement in civil war such as the one that took place between Cromwell and the Crown. TO be precise: Pres. Sharples was not referring to all wars, just one.

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10/12/2019 at 4:27 AM

I am now going to see if I can reconstruct or locate a Pres. Sharples pedigree all the way back to England. There must be an existing one somewhere...

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10/12/2019 at 4:28 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Sharpless

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10/12/2019 at 4:37 AM

The direct immigrant ancestor in the Sharples(s) family was: John Sharpless, Sr
(No connection immediately jumps out between either this John and the Dep. Gov. of the Isle of Man or Samuel Sharples of the New Garden Mtg. in County Carlow.

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10/12/2019 at 4:51 AM

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Wybunbury,+UK/Preston,+Lancashire,+...
The Sharples of Wybunbury and Preston are historically/geographically separated by some 62 miles. So there is not an intimate connection in the year 1590 or thereabouts.

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10/12/2019 at 5:02 AM

"It is especially interesting to note that so many of
these early Irish Friends had been officers and
soldiers in Cromwell's " New Model," and that
the same splendid zeal and courage shown at
Naseby and Worcester, but now directed in a
peaceful cause, contributed so largely to the up-
building^ of Quakerism in the nation." in Myers: https://archive.org/stream/immigrationofiri00myer/immigrationofiri0...

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10/12/2019 at 5:06 AM

Richard de Sharples looks like a common ancestor to me.. In support of commonality of the Sharples line > He was from Lancashire

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