428 [Feb, 15, 
Ruschenberger.] 
Edward, their third son, settled in Philadelphia, and, in 1739, 
was este ablistied at a corner of Front and Walnut streets, in the 
dry goods trade. His place of business was commonly called 
“the Scales.” 
He left three sons: Hdward John, who was born in Rotter- 
dam, in 1786, and died in Jamaica, surgeon of the Africa, a 
sixty-four gun ship; Culpeper, who died a midshipman on 
board of the Northumberland, at the siege of Louisburg, Cape 
Breton, 1758, and Robert, who was born in Philadelphia, No- 
rennet 18, 1739, and masviedl in 1769, Jemima Sheppard, of 
Bensalem sonnel Bucks county, Pa. He had five sons, Barns- 
ley, Robert (who probably died young), Culpeper, Robert and 
Edward; and five daughters, Cornelia, Mary, Sarah, Harriet 
and Emily. 
Robert Bridges was a sailmaker. THis residence was at (old 
number) 259 South Front street, and his sail-loft was on the 
wharf, Delaware avenue, north of Lombard street. James For- 
ten, an almost “colorless colored man,” was his foreman, and, 
in 1800, when Robert Bridges died, succeeded him in busi- 
ness. 
Culpeper Bridges, the third son of Robert, the sailmaker, 
was born in Philadelphia, December 21, 1776, and died Decem- 
ber 29, 1823. He was trained to be a merchant by John 
Leamy, whose “ counting-house” was at the south-east corner 
of Walnut and Third streets. He married, February 21, 1804, 
Sarah, the fifth daughter and eleventh child of William Cliff. 
ton, of Southwark, a blacksmith and machinist, and had two 
sons, William Cliffton, and Robert, the subject of this sketch, 
who was born in Philadelphia, March 5, 1806. 
We are what our mothers make us, all therefore it seems 
proper to state that the iron master, William Cliffton was born, 
probably in Philadelphia, March 4, 1729, and died February 
94,1802. He married, September 2, 1763, Catherine Hallo- 
well, by whom he had twelve children in the course of less than 
nineteen years. She died July 16, 1786, They were all mem- 
bers of the Society of Friends. One of the sons, William, who 
died November 25, 1799, was a poet as well as blacksmith, It 
