At 06:46 PM 6/3/00 -0500, Patti Stafford wrote: >I am new to this list and thought I would post my line and see if anyone >may be related or not :-) > >Matthias Sharp or Sharpenstine died c1756; lived in Tewkesbury Twp,NJ I'm descended from an Isaac Sharp (possibly originally Scharpf, but could have been the above)who settled in Orange Co., NC, in the 1770s: there seems to be some question about the identity of his parents, but the German-speaking origin of his family seems to be established. As I haven't lived in central North Carolina since before I became seriously involved in genealogy, I have had little opportunity to thoroughly research this line. Elizabeth Whitaker [email protected] ggdaughter of Terry Donnell Sharp (d. 1957) of Guilford Co., NC