Any Grandison/Granderson Sharp b. 1810 VA? He married (1) Martha Slade in NC 9 May 1831. Also, for everyone, any ideas where/how the name Grandison/Granderson came about? Do you know what ethnicity it is? Thanks. Priscilla Stone Sharp

I am interested in Sharp lines that came through South Carolina. My ancestor was John F. Sharp b 1803 Wilkes Co., Ga d 1889 Elmore Co., Al. Census records say his parents were born in South Carolina. One son, Jeptha Franklin was on the survey of Civil War vets in Arkansas. He stated his grandfather was William Sharp and also mentioned Morgan Co., Ga. The William who was in Morgan Co., Ga may have been the son of John Sharp who died in Morgan Co., 1817. This John had wife Sally (Sarah?) who then married John Watts. Any help with this line will be appreciated. Sandy Sharp

I would also be interested in this book we had a William Sharp (Scot-Irish) first came to America 1749 landed in SC. He moved on to VA and was deceased by 1755 or so we think. His son Isaac b. April 4 1750 in SC and in his adulthood raised a large family in Waynesburg, PA. We have a pretty good record of the family from Isaac on down and will share. Tom Sharp [email protected] East Moline, IL ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene Philips To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Book on Sharp Family

Hi Gene, I finally got a copy of the books (two volumes) from Mr. Bowie. It is rather interesting. Have traced 4 lines into Mississippi, 1 line into Texas/Oklahoma, and two lines into other parts of Georgia from it so far. It is extremely helpful to me in answering some questions, but then it begets more <G>. Hopefully I will be able to go to South Carolina in the fall (that is my plan currently) and check out some of my questions on this side of the family and visit my Grandmother on my mother's side ....she turned 95 this year but thinks I am wasting my time doing genealogy <G>. Will be visiting website soonest <G>. thanks walt -----Original Message----- From: Gene Philips wrote @ Wednesday, June 14, 2000 00:08: >I don't have the book, but we need to keep in touch. My Sharp family was also >from the Abbeville District of SC. I have a webpage (below) that lists some of >my Sharp ancestors. I'm off Monday and will check the Genealogy libraries here >for that book. I'm doubly blessed because the University and the city library >have excellent genealogy sections. Gene Phillips >http://www.telepath.com/dataman/jjsharp.html

Two items for Tom Sharp: 1. I have been researching my Sharp line back to a Joseph Sharp born 1780 and lived in western Pa. I have not been able to verify any parents or any former locations. 2. We have generation after generation of Isaacs in our line. Considering that your Sharps were in Waynesburg, Pa. and the Isaac in your line, is there any possible link between the two lines? Harry Sharp Tom Sharp wrote: > I would also be interested in this book we had a William Sharp (Scot-Irish) first came to America 1749 landed in SC. He moved on to VA and was deceased by 1755 or so we think. His son Isaac b. April 4 1750 in SC and in his adulthood raised a large family in Waynesburg, PA. We have a pretty good record of the family from Isaac on down and will share. > > Tom Sharp [email protected] > East Moline, IL > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gene Philips > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:35 PM > Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Book on Sharp Family > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ====

I don't have the book, but we need to keep in touch. My Sharp family was also from the Abbeville District of SC. I have a webpage (below) that lists some of my Sharp ancestors. I'm off Monday and will check the Genealogy libraries here for that book. I'm doubly blessed because the University and the city library have excellent genealogy sections. Gene Phillips http://www.telepath.com/dataman/jjsharp.html At 07:51 PM 01/01/2000 -0600, mystic wrote: >Am looking for a copy of the following book: >Edward Sharp's Descendents >that is all that I know about the book, just the title. Contains the >history of Edward Sharp, born 15 June 1745, died 12 Mar 1812, buried Hodges, >SC, son of Henry Sharp of Lygautry, Ireland, married Mary Eleanor Gray (no >data on her). Children were: Henry, William, Robert, Eleanor, Clement, and >Edward, JR. Looking for any data on any of these. Entire family is from the >Abbeville County area of South Carolina. TIA walt (lost in the land of OZ) > >"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many >parasites living on the labor of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson Letter >to William Ludlow, 1824 > > > > > > >==== SHARP Mailing List ==== >

Dear DHMNAM, Where abouts in Pa were your Sharps indicated? Do you know the husband of your Sarah Sharp? I have a Tamov or Tamar with whom I've been informed's name could actually be a form of Sarah. Mine was married to a Daniel Baker from the Delaware Valley area here in Media, Pa. South of Philadelphia, near the Delaware and New Jersey borders. thanks, Esther [email protected] wrote: > > My Jacob Sharp was born in Pennsylvania ... I can find no George Sharp at all > ... wish we could have made contact!! Thanks! > > My Jacob had children Henry, Elizabeth, William, Sarah, David, Mary Ann, > Benjamin, James, and Jacob. > > Hope someone can connect. > [email protected] > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== -- Esther Fetsko ---USA LINE--------------Smith,Gallagher,Baker,Carroll Surnames-------------------- KATE OR KATHERINE SMITH,b?,d.?,PHILADELPHIA(additional info limited) m.JOHN GALLAGHER,b?d?,Phila, (No additional info known) CHILDREN: CATHERINE nee GALLAGHER, BAKER,b.4/1889, Phila,m.HOWARD BAKER,b.4/1886 Media.CHLD:Lewis,Ernie,Margret,(my grandmother) b,1917, Media,m.John J.Carroll, b,1912,Clifton,d.1982,CHLD:JOHN,(my father), Charles, Catherine, Sharon. ---Glst, UK LINE--------------Swan,Smith,Platt Surnames----------------------------- ELIZABETH SWAN,b.1860-1880?(additional info limited) m.EDGAR SMITH,b.1860,Gr.Sommersford,d.1948, CHLD:FREDERICK,b.4/11/1912,Priory Rd, Glst, Caroline,b,1905?,Lower Westgate St, Glst,(age:94),m.31/1/1931Reginal Platt,b.1902,Swindon,d.1959,Swindon, CHLD:Lilly,Barbara nee Platt Carroll,Wiltershire,b.1933,(my mom),Tina, George,Rose, Daniel, Mary,Esther(an aunt)..

hi Group , I am wondering if anyone has a connection to the various Sharp families in Ohio that might know about Issac , 1860-70s , in Huntington Twp his daughters Caroline and Anne married the Lenox brothers , Phil.

We are looking for information on a John Sharp,born on Dec.31,1804 in Vermont.Our information indicates his father was also John Sharp.We know the John we are doing married a Betsy E.Davis.Betsy was born April 30,1812. We want to find out the town of birth for John;What his mothers name was;Where the parents came from as well as the date of wedding & place for John & Betsy. We known they moved to Ashtabula Cty.,Ohio then to West Michigan area(Newaygo County). The earlier movements not known. Thanks: [email protected]

My Jacob Sharp was born in Pennsylvania ... I can find no George Sharp at all ... wish we could have made contact!! Thanks! My Jacob had children Henry, Elizabeth, William, Sarah, David, Mary Ann, Benjamin, James, and Jacob. Hope someone can connect. [email protected]

My ANN SHARP of Philadelphia, PA married George Markley and had a daughter Margaret MARKLEY who died June 29, 1822, Ann SHARP doesn't enter my line until then. I beleive her parents were John SHARP and Sarah. John SHARP was born in Scotland and m. ca 1759 in Virginia died 1796 in Sulivan County, Tennesse. and he second marriage was to Jane HAMILTON, But as I say he isn't proven. Thanks for writing. Doris

I have a Jacob Sharp (abt. 1856-1906) who lived in Clark County, Illinois, and was married to Mary Kelley. My best information is that Jacob was the son of George Sharp (b. abt. 1830) and that George Sharp was born in Pennsylvania. I wonder if George Sharp's father was the Jacob Sharp you mention? I know very little about this line. John W. Sharp ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Pennsylvania > Am wondering if my Jacob sharp who ws born in 1804 in Pennsylvania was any > relation to the Jacob Sharp who was born to Pter and Mary Sharp in Lancaster > County, PA. My Jacob was borin 1804 and married Sarah Schissler. I would be > happy to give out any more information. thanks! > > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== > > > >

I am resubmitting my line due to some new info. It seems that MARY ANN SHARP daughter of SAMUEL SHARP and Millie MAYFIELD and granddaughter of JOHN SHARP had a child in 1826 that she named WILLIS MONROE SHARP in Hickman co. TN. In 1853 Mary Ann Sharp married Jonathan TOLLE and changed Willis's name to Willis Monroe Tolle (this was probably unofficial) Mary Ann and Jonathan had two more children, John Wesley and Clementine. At some point Willis changed his name back to Sharp. Willis Monroe Sharp married Harriett HARDER they had 10 children in Hickman Co. and moved to Perry Co. and then to Gibson Co. Tennessee where they had 2 other children. My great aunt said that Willis nor Harriett ever spoke of their family. It is only through research that I found out about Mary Ann Sharp. (although her name is listed in the family Bible.. but with no indication of who she was) I am not positive that she is his birth mother. Mary Ann outlived Willis. She died in 1919 and he in 1906. As far as I know they never made contact after he move to Gibson Co. I find this strange. Any info. or ideas on my mystery would be helpful. Thank you. L.Sharp

Am wondering if my Jacob sharp who ws born in 1804 in Pennsylvania was any relation to the Jacob Sharp who was born to Pter and Mary Sharp in Lancaster County, PA. My Jacob was borin 1804 and married Sarah Schissler. I would be happy to give out any more information. thanks!

The postings regarding "Sharps of Penna" prompt me to request information on my Pennsylvania Sharp family. Peter and Mary Sharp purchased a farm north of the present village of Intercourse, Leacock Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 5 May 1764. This is the earliest public record discovered to date. Their children were Christian, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Peter, Moses, Barbara, Anna and Jacob. Peter, of the second generation, married Anna Yoder, the daughter of Amishman Michael Yoder in 1789. Five years later, Peter and Anna joined an Amish migration to the Kishacoquillas Valley in Huntingdon and Mifflin Counties of central Pennsylvania. Peter and Mary's other children remained in Lancaster County. Does anyone have any information on this family before the 1764 purchase? --John At 10:22 AM 6/9/2000 -0700, you wrote: >SHARP-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 83 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Re: [SHARP-L] What is Sharp's Orig ["Bud Sharpe" <[email protected]] > #2 [SHARP-L] Catherine SHARP and Samu ["Thomas Franklin Bishop" <[email protected]] > #3 Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. [Harry Sharp <[email protected]] > #4 Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. [Malcolm Sharp <[email protected]>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from SHARP-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 18:18:51 -0400 >From: "Bud Sharpe" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] What is Sharp's Origin? >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >W. G. Mitchell, > >I have nothing else on Lessix. My database is for early SHARP families and >often doesn't go deep into related families unless they are in my line. I >can tell you what my source is for this info: "The Sharpes", issue no. 26, >Apr 1895, p160. It reads, under Georgia, "Daniel and William Sharp and >their sister, Mrs. Mary Lessix, came from Delaware to Augusta, Georgia, >while Hiram, the son of Mrs. Lessix, was an infant, and as he grew up was >known as Sharp, and on coming to years of maturity continued to go by that >name. He was a farmer, m. Sarah Owens, b. Jan. 11, 1787; d. March 1866. >Her parents came from Maryland. Hiram Sharp, born in Delaware April 24, >1789. moved from Morgan co. to Carroll co. in 1828, and died there in 1875." > >Bud Sharpe > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:04:48 -0400 >From: "Thomas Franklin Bishop" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [SHARP-L] Catherine SHARP and Samuel DAWSON >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello Everyone: > >For the last 20 years I have sought information on the following people. > >Catherine SHARP, b 15 October 1816, Cavan County, Ireland, d 25 March 1896, >Harrison Twp, Henry Co, OH, buried in Hoy-Shunk Cemetery, Harrison Twp, >Henry Co, OH, married Samuel DAWSON, b 28 May 1815, Ireland, d 8 May 1855, >Napoleon, Henry Co, OH; buried in Union Chapel Cemetery, Napoleon Twp, Henry >Co, OH. > >Samuel and Catherine (SHARP) DAWSON had the following children: > >Martha Jane DAWSON, b 19 August 1838 near Lucasville, Scioto Co, OH, d 21 >May 1910, Henry Co, OH; married George W. VAN PELT. > >Mary Ann Dawson, b 11 September 1841, Napoleon, Henry Co, OH; d 22 May 1906, >Kalkaska Co, Fife Lake, MI; buried Springfield Cemetery, Fife Lake, MI; >married Jacob BATTENFIELD 2 January 1861, Napoleon, OH. > >Edward Henry Dawson, b 8 May 1845, Napoleon, Henry Co, Ohio; d 8 January >1935, buried Sandusky, OH; married 19 Jan 1882 Dema SPRAGUE > >Ellen Helena Dawson, b c 1845, Napoleon, Ohio; married William HOWELL. > >Elizabeth Sellina Dawson, b c 1852, Napoleon, Ohio; married John SHELT. > >The obituary of Catherine (SHARP) DAWSON said she had come to this country >when she was 15 years old, making it about 1801. I do not know if she came >with family or not. I have found no trace of these Dawsons beyond 1841. Can >someone help me? > >Gerri >[email protected] > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 22:06:42 -0400 >From: Harry Sharp <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Thelma, good morning. Need to ask a favor. I must have deleted your message with the Sharp and Rice Lines. Could you resend this History. Sorry for the inconveniences. I some times have too many thumbs. Harry Sharp > >Thelma Nation wrote: > >> There is some very good information on the Sharps in Union Co., Tn. My husband's Sharp ancestors settled in Bold Valley. A lot of information on Sharp in a book, "To Loy's Cross Roads" I think you can order this book from Union County Historical Society. I got mine from there. Very interesting history of the area, including the Sharps. >> Thelma Nation >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Priscilla Sharp <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:08 AM >> Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. >> >> > We are forgetting also that many of the PA German Schaup/Schaub and Dutch >> > and German Scharf/Scharp families changed their name/spelling to Sharp. >> > Many of them are known to have migrated south from PA to NC and elsewhere. >> > I wouldn't rule them out, either. >> > >> > Also, there was a serious rift in the NJ Quaker communities in the >> > mid-1700s about the owning of slaves (yes, believe it or not, there were >> > Quakers who were slaveholders), and entire families packed up and moved >> > south where there was less pressure to give up their slaves. >> > >> > Priscilla >> > >> > >> > ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== >> > >> > >> >> ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== > >______________________________X-Message: #4 >Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 08:57:35 -0700 >From: Malcolm Sharp <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >"By the early eighteenth century there were Quaker planters in the West Indies and Quaker slave merchants in London, Philadelphia, and Newport, Rhode Island. Partly because of the Friends' testimony against war, slaveholding occasioned moral tensions that were less common among other denominations. For social critics within the sect, the >wealthy masters and slave-trading merchants presented a flagrant symbol of worldly compromise and an ideal target for attack. For a variety of reasons, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) brought a spiritual crisis for the Society of Friends, resulting in much soul-searching, attempts at self-purification, and a final commitment to disengage >themselves collectively from the Atlantic slave system." >ref: David Brion Davis, "The Problem of Slavery", Introduction to Oxford Press' An Historical Guide to World Slavery, ed. Drescher and Engerman. [The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, http://www.yale.edu/glc/ ] > >-- >Malcolm Schalick Sharp >http://sharp.rootsweb.com >-- > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: Priscilla Sharp <[email protected]> >> > To: <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:08 AM >> > Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. >> > >> > > We are forgetting also that many of the PA German Schaup/Schaub and Dutch >> > > and German Scharf/Scharp families changed their name/spelling to Sharp. >> > > Many of them are known to have migrated south from PA to NC and elsewhere. >> > > I wouldn't rule them out, either. >> > > >> > > Also, there was a serious rift in the NJ Quaker communities in the >> > > mid-1700s about the owning of slaves (yes, believe it or not, there were >> > > Quakers who were slaveholders), and entire families packed up and moved >> > > south where there was less pressure to give up their slaves. >> > > >> > > Priscilla > John E. Sharp, Director______________________________________ HISTORICAL COMMITTEE & ARCHIVES of the Mennonite Church 1700 South Main Street, Goshen, IN 46526-4794 Phone: (219) 535-7477 Fax: (219) 535-7756 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.goshen.edu/mcarchives _________________________________________________________

Hannah HOUSE first married in Pennsylvania; and boar 4 children. She, then married Theodore SHARP, Ontario, CANADA. I am trying to find her in Pennsylvania records, but I do not know her maiden name. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance, Howard H o w a r d R a y L a w r e n c e Penn State url: http://www.personal.psu.edu/hrl/

"By the early eighteenth century there were Quaker planters in the West Indies and Quaker slave merchants in London, Philadelphia, and Newport, Rhode Island. Partly because of the Friends' testimony against war, slaveholding occasioned moral tensions that were less common among other denominations. For social critics within the sect, the wealthy masters and slave-trading merchants presented a flagrant symbol of worldly compromise and an ideal target for attack. For a variety of reasons, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) brought a spiritual crisis for the Society of Friends, resulting in much soul-searching, attempts at self-purification, and a final commitment to disengage themselves collectively from the Atlantic slave system." ref: David Brion Davis, "The Problem of Slavery", Introduction to Oxford Press' An Historical Guide to World Slavery, ed. Drescher and Engerman. [The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, http://www.yale.edu/glc/ ] -- Malcolm Schalick Sharp http://sharp.rootsweb.com -- > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Priscilla Sharp <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. > > > > > We are forgetting also that many of the PA German Schaup/Schaub and Dutch > > > and German Scharf/Scharp families changed their name/spelling to Sharp. > > > Many of them are known to have migrated south from PA to NC and elsewhere. > > > I wouldn't rule them out, either. > > > > > > Also, there was a serious rift in the NJ Quaker communities in the > > > mid-1700s about the owning of slaves (yes, believe it or not, there were > > > Quakers who were slaveholders), and entire families packed up and moved > > > south where there was less pressure to give up their slaves. > > > > > > Priscilla

Hello Everyone: For the last 20 years I have sought information on the following people. Catherine SHARP, b 15 October 1816, Cavan County, Ireland, d 25 March 1896, Harrison Twp, Henry Co, OH, buried in Hoy-Shunk Cemetery, Harrison Twp, Henry Co, OH, married Samuel DAWSON, b 28 May 1815, Ireland, d 8 May 1855, Napoleon, Henry Co, OH; buried in Union Chapel Cemetery, Napoleon Twp, Henry Co, OH. Samuel and Catherine (SHARP) DAWSON had the following children: Martha Jane DAWSON, b 19 August 1838 near Lucasville, Scioto Co, OH, d 21 May 1910, Henry Co, OH; married George W. VAN PELT. Mary Ann Dawson, b 11 September 1841, Napoleon, Henry Co, OH; d 22 May 1906, Kalkaska Co, Fife Lake, MI; buried Springfield Cemetery, Fife Lake, MI; married Jacob BATTENFIELD 2 January 1861, Napoleon, OH. Edward Henry Dawson, b 8 May 1845, Napoleon, Henry Co, Ohio; d 8 January 1935, buried Sandusky, OH; married 19 Jan 1882 Dema SPRAGUE Ellen Helena Dawson, b c 1845, Napoleon, Ohio; married William HOWELL. Elizabeth Sellina Dawson, b c 1852, Napoleon, Ohio; married John SHELT. The obituary of Catherine (SHARP) DAWSON said she had come to this country when she was 15 years old, making it about 1801. I do not know if she came with family or not. I have found no trace of these Dawsons beyond 1841. Can someone help me? Gerri [email protected]

Thelma, good morning. Need to ask a favor. I must have deleted your message with the Sharp and Rice Lines. Could you resend this History. Sorry for the inconveniences. I some times have too many thumbs. Harry Sharp Thelma Nation wrote: > There is some very good information on the Sharps in Union Co., Tn. My husband's Sharp ancestors settled in Bold Valley. A lot of information on Sharp in a book, "To Loy's Cross Roads" I think you can order this book from Union County Historical Society. I got mine from there. Very interesting history of the area, including the Sharps. > Thelma Nation > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Priscilla Sharp <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 10:08 AM > Subject: Re: [SHARP-L] Sharps of Penna. > > > We are forgetting also that many of the PA German Schaup/Schaub and Dutch > > and German Scharf/Scharp families changed their name/spelling to Sharp. > > Many of them are known to have migrated south from PA to NC and elsewhere. > > I wouldn't rule them out, either. > > > > Also, there was a serious rift in the NJ Quaker communities in the > > mid-1700s about the owning of slaves (yes, believe it or not, there were > > Quakers who were slaveholders), and entire families packed up and moved > > south where there was less pressure to give up their slaves. > > > > Priscilla > > > > > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ==== > > > > > > ==== SHARP Mailing List ====

W. G. Mitchell, I have nothing else on Lessix. My database is for early SHARP families and often doesn't go deep into related families unless they are in my line. I can tell you what my source is for this info: "The Sharpes", issue no. 26, Apr 1895, p160. It reads, under Georgia, "Daniel and William Sharp and their sister, Mrs. Mary Lessix, came from Delaware to Augusta, Georgia, while Hiram, the son of Mrs. Lessix, was an infant, and as he grew up was known as Sharp, and on coming to years of maturity continued to go by that name. He was a farmer, m. Sarah Owens, b. Jan. 11, 1787; d. March 1866. Her parents came from Maryland. Hiram Sharp, born in Delaware April 24, 1789. moved from Morgan co. to Carroll co. in 1828, and died there in 1875." Bud Sharpe