Isaac Sharp (1712 - 1783)

Born 4 May 1712 in Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Died 8 Mar 1783 at age 70 in Hanover Twp, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Isaac Scharp was born on about 4 May 1712 in Palatinate, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany, the son of Isaac Aaron Scharp and Anna Elizabeth Cline. His 2 siblings were Johannes Aaron Ernst SchÄrp (a.k.a. Aaron Sharp) and Johann Georick Scharp. Isaac lived for some time during his youth in Germany before comming to America.

Isaac immigrated to America with his two brothers on 16 September 1738 to Philadelphia on the Queen Elizabeth.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Some records show the family’s surname as “SCHERFF". At some point they changed the spelling of their surname to “Sharp”. He resided in East Hanover Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

"It is believed that Issac Sharp, 26 years of age, who immigrated from Palatines Germany Sept. 16, 1738 on the ship Queen Elizabeth in the Port of Philadelphia, to be the father of the Sharps who settled in Anderson Co, Claiborne Co. & Union Co. TN. See: Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadephia from 1727-1808 by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D. and edited by WIlliam John Hinks, Ph.D. Vol. I 1727-1775.

Isaac married Anna Margaret Weber. His children are listed on FamilySearch as: Henry (Heinrich Honas) Sharp, George Sharp, Aaron Sharp, Margaret Sharp (Pritz), Veronica Sharp (Setter), Isaac Sharp, Barbara Sharp (Kintzer), Rebecca Sharp and John Joseph Sharp.

Issac married Margaret A. Webber and they produced #1. Henry (Heinrich) Sharp, Sr. b. 1735 Germany, naturalized 1764 Rowan Co, NC d. 1814, marrying Barbara Graves in about 1760. #2. John Joseph Sharp, who married Phyllis Effland in 1778, # 3. Margaret Sharp, who married George Pritz (Pretz), #4. Veronica Sharp, who married Jacob Setter, # 5. Barbara Sharp, who married Valentine Kintzer & #6. Rebecca Sharp".

Son of Isaac & Anna Elizabeth (Cline) Sharp, he was born between 1707 and 1712. Isaac lived for some time in Germany before coming to America. He was a brother of Johannes Ernest SCHÄRP, aka Aaron Sharp (1699 - 1756). He married Margaret A. WEBBER and was the father of: Henry (Heinrich Honas) Sharp (1735 - 1814), George Sharp, Aaron Sharp, Margaret SHARP Pritz, Veronica SHARP Setter, Isaac Sharp (1740 - 1781), Barbara SHARP Kintzer, Rebecca Sharp (1744 - 1816), and John Joseph Sharp (1753 - 1830).

Birth: Unknown, Scotland. Death: Mar. 8, 1783, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA.^[6] Find A Grave: Memorial #114184023.

Isaac’s Will was filed in about 1767, but his actual death was on 8 March 1783 in Hanover, Lancaster County (now Lebanon County), Pennsylvania. Eugene L. Sharp of Spokane, Washington has a document from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania which shows his sons John and Henry being appointed as Administrators of his estate following his death.

He died in what was at the time Lancaster county, now Lebanon county, with a non-cemetery burial location.

--from gravestone memorial, created by Don Bedwell

Sources

1. ↑ "A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727". Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 10412 #405
2. ↑ "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Vol. I". Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 48379 #320096
3. ↑ "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s," database, (Ancestry Record 7486 #3333684 : accessed 2 October 2023), Name Isaac Scharp, Arrival Year 1738, Arrival Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Primary Immigrant Scharp, Isaac, Source Publication Code 7820, Annotation An index by Marvin V. Koger, Index to the Names of 30,000 Immigrants...Supplementing the Rupp, Ship Load Volume, 1935, 232p. is inferior to Wecken's index in the third edition (above). Page 449 contains "Names of the First Palatines in North Carolina, as, Source Bibliography RUPP, ISRAEL DANIEL. A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, with a Statement of the Names of Ships, Whence They Sailed, and the Date of Their Arrival at Philadelphia, Chronologically Arranged, Together with the Necessary Historical and Other Notes, also, an Appendix Containing Lists of More Than One Thousand German and French Names in New York prior to 1712. Leipzig [Germany]:, Household Members (Name) Isaac Scharp; citing Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Year 1738, Page Number 120.
4. ↑ "Index to the names of 30,000 immigrants--German, Swiss, Dutch and French--into Pennsylvania, 1727-1776. Supp.," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 10413 #217 : accessed 2 October 2023); citing Original data Koger, M. V.. Index to the names of 30,000 immigrants--German, Swiss, Dutch and French--into Pennsylvania, 1727-1776. supplementing the I. Daniel Rupp, ship load volume. Pennington Gap, Va. Koger, c 1935.
5. ↑ "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Vol. I," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 48379 #320096 : accessed 2 October 2023)
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114184023/isaac-sharp : accessed 31 October 2021), memorial page for Isaac Sharp (unknown–8 Mar 1783), Find a Grave Memorial ID 114184023, ; Maintained by Don (contributor 46502238) Non-Cemetery Burial, who reports a unknown burial location in Lebanon county..

• "Know Your Relatives" by Genieve Sharp Peters

• "Our Union County Families" by McDonald & Peters

• Find A Grave: Memorial #114184023

• "The History of Preble County, Ohio" https://archive.org/details/oh-preble-1881-williams/page/n277

• "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2189 #2704281 : accessed 2 October 2023), Name Isaac Sharp, Event Type Index, Residence Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monthly Meeting Green Street Monthly Meeting, Yearly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Meeting State Pennsylvania, Meeting County Philadelphia; citing Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

• "Pennsylvania, U.S., Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2497 #1224642 : accessed 2 October 2023), Name Isaac Sharp, Year 1773, Town or Ward East Hanover, County Lancaster, Archive Rollname 328; citing Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4, Tax & Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794, Microfilm Roll 328.

• "Pennsylvania, U.S., Septennial Census, 1779-1863," database with images, Ancestry Sharing Link - (Ancestry Record 2702 #704458 : accessed 2 October 2023), Isaac Sharp in Hanover, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Sharp-665 created through the import of arend.ged on Aug 26, 2011 by Jon Arend.