Thank you, but are you saying that my Sharps of Pa. could appear in this History? Harry 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 ====