Adam Sharp (abt. 1750 - abt. 1816)

Born about 1750 in Virginia, British Colonial America

Husband of Pheobe (Harmon) Sharp — married 1765 in Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1816 at about age 66 in Clark, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Adam Sharp performed Patriotic Service in Virginia in the American Revolution.

Adam was born in about 1750 in Virginia, the son of Matthias Sharp (Shaup/Shaub) and Catherine (Engen) Kern/Kerns/Carn.

Adam’s father Matthias (Mathias) Shaup's Immigration was on September 11, 1732 as a passenger on the ship Pennsylvania Merchant to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Matthias Shaup and Catherine Engen (Carn was first husband's surname) were married after 1735, when her first husband, whom she had married in Germany in about 1718, had died. Matthias died 8 February 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia.

The probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800; Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Mathias Shaup's appraisement was by John Stevenson, William Williams and Henry Downs. Description: Decedent Book: WB1-301.

Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A102865
• Family of Matthias Shaup and Catherine Engen
• (werelate.org/wiki/Special:Search?ns=&ecp=c&rows=20&watch=wu&k=Catherine+Engen&start=0)

• “Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800; Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley

• Source Bibliography: PENNSYLVANIA (COLONY). PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, from the Organization to the Termination of the Proprietary Government. (Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, vols. 3-4.) Harrisburg, PA: State of Pennsylvania, Theo Fenn & Co. Vol. 3 (1840), containing the Proceedings of the Council from May 31, 1717, to January 23, 1735-1736, pp. 299-301, 303-305, 307, 346-348, 350-351, 390-392, 409-411, 414, 436-437, 440-442, 444, 457, 460-461, 483 Page: 484

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Publication Code: 717. Primary Immigrant: Shaup, Matthias. Source Bibliography: BOYER, CARL, 3RD, editor Ship Passenger Lists, Pennsylvania and Delaware (1641-1825). Newhall, Calif.: the editor, 1980. 289 p., 4th pr. 1986. Reprint. Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD, 1992. Page: 66. Publication Code: 6665. Annotation: Lists Palatines arriving in Pennsylvania between 1718 and 1742. Note that the first printing of vol. 3, 1840, has been used in no. 2048, Filby and Meyer. Also in no. 717, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, Pennsylvania and Delaware, pp. 48-86; and printed in PA.