updated: 20 January 2007

William & Mary (Smith) Sharp Family Tree

3400+ family members

(Adams, Agnew, Allan, Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Anger, Armstrong, Arnold, Ashford, Bahrke, Bailey, Balley, Balmer, Barnes, Bartholomew, Bates, Baxter, Beckwith, Beebe, Belding, Bell, Belyea, Bettle, Birch, Bishop, Bogle, Bolton, Bordner, Bostwrk, Bourne, Bowen, Boyd, Bradley, Braisted, Branscombe, Brewer, Britton, Brown, Bubar, Buckanan, Burden, Burlock, Butler, Callahan, Camilli, Camp, Campbell, Carpenter, Carr, Carson, Carver, Case, Chapman, Clare, Clark, Cloutier, Cochrane, Cogswell, Colpitts, Conkling, Connors, Coogan, Corey, Cory, Cosman, Coulthard, Cox, Crabbe, Craft, Craig, Crandell, Crawford, Crook, Cross, Cruser, Cunningham, Dunn, Durling, Eleda, Dalling, Davidson, Day, Delany, DeLong, Dennis, Derosia, DeVouge, Dieggey, Dillenbeck, Doherty, Dole, Drake, Dunfield, Dunham, Eckel, Ellsworth, English, Erickson, Ernest, Esseltine, Estey, Fenwick, Ferrow, Fisher, Floyd, Fleming, Fletcher, Flewelling, Folkins, Forbes, Forrest, Fowler, Francis, Franklin, Frazee, Fredrickson, Gallagher, Garnett, Gartley, Gaunce, Geogins, Giarrusso, Gibbs, Giermindl, Giles, Girard, Glendenning, Glort, Goodwin, Gott, Goucher, Graham, Grant, Gray, Green, Grey, Gregg, Haines, Haggerty, Hall, Hallett, Hanna, Harding, Harrell, Harris, Harvil, Hathway, Hayes, Hawley, Heffer, Heine, Hendrickson, Herbert, Hillman, Hinson, Hodges, Hodgson, Holder, Homer, Horton, Hotchkiss, Hought, Howland, Howlett, Hoyt, Huggard, Hughson, Hughson, Huntable, Hurburt, Hyde, Hyra, Ingraham, Isbill, Jeffery, Jenson, Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Jorden, Juntzis, Keiley, Keistead, Keeney, King, Kitching, Knight, Kraus, Kurt, Langstaff, Larkum, Laskey, Law, LeBlanc, Leggett, Leighton, lemon, Lermor, Lingley, Lockhart, London, Long, Lossee, Lyons, MacAfee, MacLeod, MacDonald, MacFarlane, MacKenzie, MacNamee, Marr, Marshall, Marvin, Mason, Masterson, Matthews, Matthewson, Matheson, May, McAuley, McBean, McClellan, McConnell, McCorkle, McCrae, McCready, McDonald, McDowell, McFawn, McGinty, McGrath, McGuire, McIver, McKay, McKinley, McKinnen, McLellan, McLeod, McMillan, McNeill, McQuinn, Mead, Menzies, Metcalf, Milbury, Millard, Miller, Millicon, Mittelholtz, Moore, Moose, Morgan, Moxon, Murray, Musgrove, Nason, Needham, Nelson, Nichols, Nickolson, Hendrickson, Northrupe, O'Connor, Ogden, Olive, Ordzie, Paine, Palmer, Parlee, Parris, Parrott, Patterson, Pearce, Peer, Pelleran, Peniston, Pepper, Perrin, Persing, Peterson, Philips, Picard, Porter, Post, Pound, Powers, Prescott, Preston, Price, Prosser, Purdy, Ramsey, Randolph, Rattoome, Reed, Reeden, Reicker, Reid, Richard, Roach, Robb, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Rommell, Ross, Rouleau, Rouse, Russell, Sartell, Sayres, Schram, Scott, Scribner, Sears, Secord, Sharp, Sharpe, Shaw, Sheck, Shelton, Sherman, Sherwood, Shillabear, Short, Simmons, Sleep, Slipp, Smith, Smolanski, Smullin, Snider, Spear, Spragg, Squire, St. Germain, Stairs, Stark, Stears, Steeds, Steeves, Stephenson, Stevens, Stockton, Stringham, Sullivan, Sutlin, Sutton, Swartz, Swick, Tayes, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Tinling, Tompkins, Tree, Turgeon, Tuson, Urquhart, VanNatter, Venieris, Vesey, Visaw, Wade, Wagner, Walker, Wallace, Wannamaker, Ward, Wasielewski, Waterhouse, Waters, Watson, Webb, Webber, Webster, Wedge, Werner, Wharton, Whitaker, White, Wiggins, Wilcox, Wilds, Willson, Wilson, Witters, Wright, Yerxa, Zawski)

Generation | First Name | (Family Name) | place/birth | married | death/place

1 William (Sharp-1) SC 20 Jan 1661 13 Feb 1688/89 1745 NJ
1 Mary (Smith-Sharp) SC abt 1668 13 Feb 1688/89 aft 1714

          2 Agnes (Sharp-Dennis) NJ 1690 6 Feb 1710 aft 1759
          2 Jonathon (Dennis) 29 Jan 1685 6 Feb 1710 8 Sept or 24 Sept 1759
                     3 Samuel (Dennis) 25 Oct 1711

          2 William Jr (Sharp) NJ 1695 1725+1736 23 Apr to 22 May 1749 NJ
          2 first wife (name unknown) 1725 before 1737 NJ
                     3 John (Sharp) NJ abt 1726 1750
                     3 Zeruiah (Paine-Sharp) 1750
                                 4 John (Sharp)
                                 4 Henry 2 (Sharp) NJ 1751 1783 Dec 1826 NB
                                 4 Abigail Amy (Lossee-Sharp) NY 1762 1783 Dec 1841 NB
                                           5 William (Sharp) 11 Mar 1784 - 18 Nov 1866
                                           5 Jane Anne (Brown-Sharp) abt 1782 - 12 Mar 1856 NB
                                           5 Abigail (Sharp-Hughson) 1784 3 Apr 1813 1866
                                           5 James (Hughson) 3 Apr 1813
                                           5 John (Sharp) NB 15 Jan 1788 7 Sep 1815 16 Jun 1881 ON
                                           5 Mary Charlotte (Ellsworth-Sharp) NB 16 Jan 1798? 7 Sep 1815 2 July 1875 ON
                                                       (Bea Riley of Ontario)
                                           5 Margaret (Sharp-Smith) 1792 28 Feb 1821 Oct 1847
                                           5 William Henry (Smith) 28 Feb 1821 1879 Norton NB
                                           5 Simon (Sharp) ?
                                           5 James (Sharp) NB 11 Sep 1795/6 ON
                                           5 Elizabeth (Ellsworth-Sharp) NB 1799 ON
                                           5 Amy (Sharp-Ellsworth) NB 9 Feb 1801 - Aug 1871
                                           5 John (Ellsworth) NB 9 Feb 1801
                                           5 Mary (Sharp-Hallet) ) 1800 7 Oct 1819 1839
                                           5 Sidney (Hallet) 7 Oct 1819
                                           5 Henry (Sharp) 11 May 1802 21 Feb 1827 Feb 1882 Midland NB
                                           5 Eliza (Case-Sharp) RI 4 Mar 1801 21 Feb 1827 28 Apr 1888 Midland NB
                                                    (Howard Sharpe of Alberta)
                     3 Mary (Sharp-Dunham) 31 Aug 1729 14 Apr 1751 26 May 1788
                     3 Elijah (Dunham) 12 Dec 1730 14 Apr 1751 29 Mar 1779
                                 4 Isabella (Dunham-Rattoome) 4 Jan 1752 1768 9 Feb 1779
                                 4 John (Rattoome) 1774? 1768 25 Oct 1823

          2 Sarah (Langstaff-Sharp) NJ 21 Apr 1721 1736 aft 1751
                     3 Henry (Sharp) NJ abt 1737 8 Feb 1758&1766 1800 PA
                     3 Sarah (Drake-Sharp) NJ abt 1726-1728 8 Feb 1758 (widow of Joseph Drake 1725-1754)
                                 4 James (Sharp) NJ abt 1759 - abt 1792
                     3 Lydia (Morgan-Sharp) NJ abt 1748 1766
                                 4 Mary (Sharp) 15 Jan 1768
                                 4 Lydia (Sharp) 28 Jan 1770 - bf 8 Aug 1800
                                 4 Henry (Sharp) 2 May 1772
                                 4 John (Sharp) 30 Dec 1774
                                 4 Sarah (Sharp) NJ 2 Mar 1775 - 1813 PA
                                 4 Levi (Sharp) 23 Dec 1777
                                 4 Samuel (Sharp) 22 Sep 1780
                                 4 Mercy (Sharp) 22 Sep 1780
                                 4 Isabella (Sharp) abt 1781
                                 4 Absalom (Sharp) 12 Nov 1784 MS
                                 4 Clara (Thomas-Sharp) MS
                                          5 three children died under age of 3

                     3 William (Sharp) abt 1739

                     3 Samuel (Sharp) NJ 1741 2 Jul 1759 aft 1805 NB
                     3 Priscilla (Sutton - Sharp) NJ 14 Apr 1735 2 Jul 1759 aft 1784 NB?
                                 4 William (Sharp) NJ 1760 5 Sep 1844 Long Island, NY
                                 4 Elizabeth Sara (Johnson-Sharp) 1766 - 1844
                                              5 Samuel (Sharp) NY 29 Jul 1783 31 Dec 1808 4 Jul 1839 NY
                                              5 Sarah (Squire- Sharp) 31 Dec 1808
                                              5 Mary (Sharp-Webb) 20 Apr 1785 - 26 Sept 1853
                                              5 William (Webb)
                                              5 James (Sharp) 24 Aug 1787 1 Oct 1815 21 Jul 1871
                                              5 Jane (Cruser-Sharp) 1 Oct 1815 28 Aug 1815
                                              5 Elizabeth (xxx-Sharp) aft 1827 1855
                                              5 Phebe (xxx-Sharp) aft 1855
                                              5 Priscilla (Sharp-Hurburt) 23 Dec 1789 - 4 Mar 1868
                                              5 John (Hurburt) NY
                                              5 William (Sharp) NY 18 Feb 1793 - 16 Aug 1883
                                              5 Martha L (xxx-Sharp) NY 1805 - 23 Apr 1877 NY
                                              5 Joseph (Sharp) 26 Mar 1795 - 1 Apr 1881 IL
                                              5 wife (xxx- Sharp)
                                              5 Elizabeth (Sharp) 8 Feb 1797 - 7 Apr 1802
                                              5 John J (Sharp) 1 Jan 1800 1824 9 Dec 1875
                                              5 Olive (Hyde-Sharp) 1824 NY
                                              5 Elizabeth Allen (Boyd- Sharp) NY
                                              5 Henry (Sharp) 8 Apr 1802 - 11 Feb 1877
                                              5 wife (xxx-Sharp) NY
                                              5 Jacob (Sharp) 28 May 1804 - 27 Jan 1895
                                              5 wife (xxx- Sharp) PA
                                              5 Eliza (Sharp) 28 Jan 1806 - 30 Apr 1883 NY
                                              5 Robert (Sharp) 16 Dec 1807 - 24 Feb 1810
                                              5 Sarah Wilton (Sharp) 30 Mar 1810 - 18 Dec 1879 NY

                                 4 Joseph (Sharp) 22 Jul 1762 18 Aug 1788 21 Jun 1855
                                 4 Hannah (Ogden-Sharp) 10 Feb 1773 18 Aug 1788 12 Jan 1820 Westfield NB
                                              5 Henry (Sharp) 10 Feb 1790 13 Oct 1821 1831
                                              5 Hannah (Short-Sharp) EN 1800 13 Oct 1821
                                              5 Anna (Sharp-Balley) 20 Feb 1792 11 Sept 1820 1878
                                              5 George (Balley) 11 Sept 1820
                                              5 Jehu (Sharp) 20 Sep 1793 20 May 1816 1853
                                              5 Hannah (Holder- Sharp) 20 May 1816
                                                           (Don Sharp of New Jersey)

                                              5 Joseph (Moore) 29 Sept 1835
                                              5 Joseph (Sharp) 26 Nov 1799 - 1879
                                              5 Samuel (Sharp) 22 Jan 1802 - 1874
                                              5 Mary (Gray-Sharp)
                                              5 Mary (Ross-Sharp)
                                              5 Elizabeth (Sharp-Short) 10 Dec 1803
                                              5 husband (Short)
                                              5 Robert (Sharp) 19 Mar 1806 11 Mar 1841 1866
                                              5 Hannah (xxx-Sharp) 11 Mar 1841
                                              5 Mary Elizabeth (Sharp) 11 Sept 1808
                                              5 William (Sharp) 10 Nov 1810 - 1899
                                              5 John (Sharp) 10 Nov 1810 25 Oct 1840 1843+
                                              5 Sarah (McLeod-Sharp) 25 Oct 1840 NB
                                              5 Rachel (Sharp) 12 May 1815 - 1877

                                 4 Robert (Sharp) NJ 1764 abt 1786 3 Sep 1852 Apohaqui NB
                                 4 Basheba (Johnson-Sharp) NY 1768 abt 1786 20 Jan 1858 Apohaqui NB
                                              5 Samuel (Sharp) NB 20 Aug 1787 28 Nov 1810 29 Mar 1862
                                              5 Elizabeth (Parlee-Sharp) NB 1790 28 Nov 1810
                                                        (George & Francis of the Lower Millstream)
                                              5 William (Sharp) NB 1790 29 Nov 1809 18 Oct 1871 NB (Nancy Adams, Kings County)
                                              5 Sarah (MacNamee-Sharp) 1 Feb 1793 29 Nov 1809 25 Dec 1882 NB

                                                             6 (link to William R. Sharp branch)

                                              5 Joseph (Sharp) NB 26 Dec 1791 - 9 Jun 1867
                                              5 Jersuha (Craft-Frazee-Sharp
                                              5 Sarah (Parlee-Sharp)
                                                       (Cosman, Floyd, Gaunce, Jonah)
                                              5 Nathaniel (Sharp) 1792
                                              5 Elizabeth (McAlbee-Sharp) 1793

                                              5 Anne (Sharp-Secord) 1793 - 1863
                                              5 James (Secord) 1795 - 1882 
                                                                                 
                                              5 Robert (Sharp) 14 Aug 1808 - 16 Oct 1863
                                              5 Sarah (Crawford-Sharp) 1811 - 25 Dec 1891

                                              5 David (Sharp) 1811 9 Apr 1839 30 Jan 1879
                                              5 Mary Ann (Folkins-Sharp) 1812 9 Apr 1839 26 Feb 1851
                                              5 wife 2 (English-Sharp)

                                              5 Sarah (Sharp- Wright)
                                              5 Jacob (Wright)

                                              5 Mary (Sharp-Jordan)
                                              5 Mose (Jordan)

                                 4 Samuel (Sharp) NJ 1766/68
                                 4 Charity (Crabbe?-Sharp) 22 Oct 1779 - 1861
                                              5 Joseph (Sharp)
                                              5 Jane (Grey or Jordan-Sharp

                                              5 son (Sharp)
                                              5 daughter (Sharp)
                                              5 Charity (Sharp-Reicker)
                                              5 husband (Reicker)

                                              5 John (Sharp) 4 Nov 1796 1818 1853
                                              5 Mary Ann (Seed-Sharp) IR 16 Apr 1802 1818

                                              5 Samuel (Sharp) 1802/04
                                              5 Mary (Jewett-Sharp) 19 Jul 1812

                                 4 Mary (Sharp-Holder) NJ 24 Jul 1767 Oct 1789 16 Apr 1864 NB
                                 4 Jacob (Holder) PA 15 August 1757 Oct 1789 29 June 1828 NB
                                           5 Samuel (Holder) 4 Jul 1790 - May 1875
                                           5 Catherine Lucretia (Belyea-Holder) 1793 - 1861
                                                           (Gordon Miller of Kingston)

                                           5 Rachel (Holder)
                                           5 John (Holder) 1795
                                           5 Ester (xxx-Holder) 1802

                                           5 Robert (Holder) Long Reach NB19 Sep 1802 13 Nov 1830 18 Apr 1865 same NB
                                           5 Sarah Prudence (Brown-Holder) 13 Nov 1830

                                           5 Mary (Holder-Brown) Long Reach NB 1806 27 Nov 1832 7 Nov 1885
                                           5 John (Brown) 27 Nov 1832

                                 4 Sarah (Sharp) 1768
                                 4 Martha (Sharp) NJ 1774 1858 NB
                                 4 Henry (Sharp) NB 1791 22 Jan 1855

                      3 Langstaff (Sharp) NJ 1743 abt 1764 abt 3 May 1805 NJ
                      3 wife (??-Sharp) abt 1764 before 1796
                                 4 Isabella (Sharp-Pound) 1765 15 Jan - 18 Feb 1784
                                 4 Elijon (Sharp) 19 Nov 1756 15 Jan - 18 Feb 1784

                                 4 Catherine (Sharp-Pound) abt 1785
                                 4 John (Pound) abt 1785

                                 4 Jonathan (Sharp) 1769 abt 1790 abt 10 May 1796
                                 4 Rachel Fitz (Randolph-Sharp) 22 Apr 1772 abt 1790
                                           5 Felima (Sharp) 1792

                       3 Jonathan (Sharp) abt 1745 1772 aft 1819
                       3 Margaret Harriot (Sharp) abt 1754 1772 bef 1792 NJ
                                 4 Margaret (Sharp-Whitaker) 1774 - aft 1819
                                 4 Peter (Whitaker) 1770/2 - aft 1819
                                 4 daughter (Sharp-Haggorty) abt 1776
                                 4 John (Haggorty)
                                 4 Mary (Sharp-Baxter) 1779 abt 1800 1864
                                 4 Charles (Baxter) 1775 abt 1800 1857
                                 4 Sarah? (Sharp) 1782/3
                                 4 George (Haggerty)
                                 4 daughter (Sharp) 1785
  
          2 Jonathon Dennis (Sharp)

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                                           Sources of Information (in order of addition)

(1) June E. (Sharp-Hodges) - generation 6 William Robert I (Sharp) 1829 to present
(2) Ancestry.excite.com - generation 1 William (Sharp) SC 20 Jan 1661 to generation 6
(3) Don (Sharp) - generation 1 to generation 10 Donald Coe Sr. (Sharp)
(4) Gordon (Miller) - generation 4 Mary (Sharp-Holder) NJ 24 Jul 1767 to present
(5) Nancy (Adams) - generation 4 Robert (Sharp) NJ 1764 to generation 8 (Steeves)
(6) Beverly (Fleming-Floyd) - Tilly Edwin Gaunce Dec 9, 1866 to generation 11 (Floyd)
(7) Olive (Gaunce-Sharp) - generation 8 Elmer (Sharp) 3 Mar 1910 to present
(8) Howard (Sharpe) - generation 1 to present
(9) And others

abbreviations - ME: Maine, MS: Mississippi, NB: New Brunswick, NJ: New Jersey, NY: New York, ON: Ontario, SC: Scotland, PA: Pennsylvania

foot notes:

1 William was Born 20 Jan 1661, Parish of Aberdeen, County of Aberdeen, Scotland, Christened 11 Oct 1661 at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland.
2 Henry b. 1751 in Woodbridge was a Loyalist to Queens County N. B. (Ref Loyalist Lineages). One of Henry's sons John b. 1788 at Grand Lake N.B. moved to Houghton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario.

For questions or input, please email: William R. Sharp wsharp@mines.edu

Other sites:

THE SHARP FAMILY, Descendants of Alexander Sharp, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Province of New Brunswick. By Edwin Tappan Adney
Malcolm and Wayne Sharp Family History