Hi, whoever you are: :o) My husband's SHARPs began, as we know so far, with 3-g-grandpa Grandison/Granderson M. SHARP, b. 1810, VA (perhaps Pittsylvania Co.) and wife, Martha SLADE. He moved to Gibson Co., TN, in about 1840, then to Cross Co. (then Poinsett), AR in 1860. He died there, a state legislator, in 1875. The SHARPs then moved down to Lonoke Co., AR, then into Jefferson Co., AR. We live in Phoenix 'cause I lived here when Bill came to visit mutual friends. Bill came over to my house for dinner one night twenty years ago and has been here ever since! <gg> The bulk of his family still lives in AR. Fellow researchers Carol Crowell Hurley and Tommy Goodwin (descendants of Grandison's brother William) and I are narrowing in on Turner SHARP as being the father of Grandison and William. There's a couple of researchers who have posted on RootsWeb and elsewhere that Grandison's father was William, but despite repeated requests, they fail to provide the proof or to remove the mistake. (You know who you are, [email protected]!) I doubt if you and Bill are related if, as you say, your family is from the NY area, but it's still nice to have Sharp "kin" out there. :o) Priscilla