Hi, Leah. Thanks for the add. I have ROCKWELL lineage, too!

Hi Leah, it's good to see you here too, I haven't had time to spend here but would like to! Work and life seem to get in the way!

Greetings from Southport, N.C., down the Cape Fear River from Wilmington where my from Chester, Penn., Bradley & Sharpless family settled before the Revolution. Capt. Richard Bradley, Sr., was a Continental Line paymaster & merchant; he wed Elizabeth Ashbridge Sharpless, daughter of John Sharpless, III, and descendant of George Ashbridge, Sr., first servant, than aide to Wm. Penn. If memory serves he wed the daughter of Quaker martyr Rev. Randall Malin. I was an INT mechanic for Piedmont Airlines when USAir took over with Randall Malin, V.P. of Marketing. He said when a child, a Sharpless aunt died but he never understood the connection, so I looked his up. I've seen an ancient photo of the old, small Sharpless home in old Chester. Wonder if it is still there? Have a year 1800 Bradley letter, saying Ashbridge said Penn thought American Indians were a "lost tribe of Israel". A common believe then. Some early American Jews believed that also.