Hi All, I am looking for more information concerning Margaret Sharpe mentioned in the following excerpts from: http://mvn.net/genealogy/WilliamGaston17781844.htm and her brothers. According to what I have been able to find and was passed down to me, Margaret Sharpe, is not from the same Sharp's as those I trace my direct descent from. Other data I have on her indicates that she was born 1755, died 17 Dec 1811 in New Bern, NC and her brothers (Catholic) came from Cumberland County, England; while my direct lineage is through those from Scotland who were associated with Clan Donnald in Scotland and finally settled in the Abbeville area of SC. "He landed in Newbern, and after a residence of some years, during which he was engaged in the practice of his profession, was married, in May 1775, to Margaret Sharpe, and English lady of the Catholic church. She had come out to North Carolina, on a visit to her two brothers, Girard and Jospeh Sharpe, who were extensively engaged in commerce, and it was during this sojourn, the gallantry of the young Irish physician, succeeded in permanently detaining her in Newbern. William Gaston, their second son, was born on the 19th of September, 1778. His elder brother died very soon after he was born, and before he was three years old, the accidents of war carried off his father." "Mrs. Gaston was thus left alone in America. Her two brothers had died, ..." TIA, walter sharp "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