When Ellis Sharpless was born on 16 May 1800, in Middletown Monthly Meeting, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jonathan Sharples, was 32 and his mother, Edith Nichols, was 31. He died on 4 November 1804, at the age of 4.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
English: variant of Sharples .
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