Kite and Sharpless correspondence
Scope and Contents
The family began to spell the surname with double "ss," perhaps to reflect pronunciation. Thomas Kite (1771-1845), son of Benjamin and Rebecca Walton Kite, married first Elizabeth Barnard (1786-1810) with whom he had two children, Susanna (1809-1844) and William (1810-1900). Thomas Kite was acknowledged as a minister in 1818. In 1813, he married secondly Edith Sharples. Thomas's older sister, Abi Kite (1787-1865), married Joseph Walton (1784-1853), Philadelphia bookseller, in 1813. His younger sister, Mary Kite (1792-1861) was an acknowledged minister. Brother Joseph Kite (1795-1854) who married was an active Friend; their correspondence is particularly rich in detail about Quaker meetings, ministers. Joseph wrote about the monthly meetings in Philadelphia and described internal problems.
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