Thomas Sharpe III (1746 - 1805)

Born 28 May 1746 in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 4 Mar 1805 at age 58 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Biography

Thomas was born in 1746. Thomas Sharpe ... He passed away in 1805.

Burial

Riverside Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut

Sources

• Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 124. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp124.html.

• Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), p. 129. . " ... Quaker Farms near Zoar Bridge." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/129.html.

• Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 644.

• Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 757. " ... Oxford, near Zoar Bridge, where he died Mar. 14, 1805."

• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 547. " ... served in the Revolutionary war in Col. Philip Bradley's regiment of the Fifth Connecticut Line and Second Brigade, which was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth; was at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78, and at Horseneck in 1781."

• Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 174. "b. May 28, 1746."

• Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 757.

• W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 82. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. "Thomas Sharpe, died Mar. 4, 1805, aged 58 years and 9 months.

Mrs. Mary Treadwell, wife of Thomas Sharpe." http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/082.html.

• Litchfield & Hoyt, History of the Town of Oxford, p. 129. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/129.html.

• Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 547. " ... died March 14, 1805."

• American Legion Cemetery List - 2003 (David S. Miles Post 174, American Legion, Oxford, Conn., 2003). . "Thomas Sharp (back of Geo. Thomas Sharp) not found/REV." http://www.our-oxford.info/vets-graves/file0011.html.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #23855489

• Newtown, CT: Vital Records, 1704-1850 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, Boston, 2021) Vol. 1, Page 6.