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. 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