Editing Thomas Mifflin (section)

== Early life and family ==
[[File:Coat of Arms of Thomas Mifflin.svg|thumb|right|Unofficial coat of arms used by family of John Mifflin<ref name=Bolton/>]]
Mifflin was born January 10, 1744, in Philadelphia, in the [[Province of Pennsylvania]]. He was the son of John Mifflin and Elizabeth Bagnall. His great-grandfather John Mifflin Jr. (1662–1714) was born in [[Warminster]], [[Wiltshire]], England and settled in the Province of Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geni.com/people/John-Mifflin/6000000006515867542|title=John Mifflin, II|date=September 22, 1661 |publisher=Geni|access-date=September 19, 2015}}</ref>

In 1760, Mifflin graduated from the [[College of Philadelphia]] (now the [[University of Pennsylvania]]) and joined the mercantile business of William Biddle. After returning from a trip to Europe in 1765, he established a commercial business partnership with his brother, George Mifflin.

He married a second cousin, Sarah Morris, on March 4, 1767.<ref name=Egle/> Their daughter [https://collections.gilcrease.org/articles/article-mrs-joseph-hopkinson Emily Mifflin] married [[Joseph Hopkinson]], the son of [[Francis Hopkinson]].  After Sarah's death in 1790, Emily became her father's hostess<ref>McKenney, Janice E. ''Women of the Constitution, Wives of the Signers,'' Sarah Morris Mifflin, Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.</ref> and a family source references a total of four daughters in the family, "all beautiful women."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://archive.org/details/colonialrevoluti41jord/page/18/mode/2up| title = Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, New Series, Volume IV, Edited by Wilfred Jordan, p. 18, New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1932.| date = September 22, 2023}}</ref> A source indicates that Sarah "had no children of her own."<ref name=Egle>{{cite book |first=William Henry |last=Egle |title=Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution |url=https://archive.org/details/somepennsylvania00egle |year=1898 }} Excerpt at {{cite web |title=Sarah Morris Mifflin |url=https://www.thomasmifflin.com/p/sarah-morris-mifflin.html |first=Stanley |last=Klos |website=ThomasMifflin.com }}</ref>
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