SHARPE William

Family/Spouse: SHARPE Elizabeth --LNU--. Elizabeth was born about 1602 in England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BRADSON Margaret. Margaret was born about 1640; died in 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: HARRIS Ann. Ann died in 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Spouse & Children
     Comfort Fitchett
     1683 - 1710
     William Sharpe
     1708 - 1742
     Elizabeth Sharpe
     1710 - 1765
Other Spouse & Children
     Elizabeth Fitchett
     1690 - 1739
     Comfort Sharpe
     Mary Sharpe
     Sarah Sharpe
     Jacob Sharpe
     1714 -
     Francis Sharpe
     1718 - 1762
     John I Sharpe
     1725 - 1759

Francis Sharp
In 1702, Francis Sharp purchased 100 acres of land in Bruton Parish, York county, adjoining the land of Richard Page and James Whaley. (York County Records, Deeds, Bonds, 11, 41.) In 1707 he purchased 50 additional acres from Mary Whaley, "bounding to the southward of said Francis Sharp's plantation". (Ibid., 11, 284.) In 1714, Sharp purchased a lot (#7) at Queen Mary's Port and evidently erected something upon it; for in 1726, Francis Sharp "Planter" and his wife Elizabeth sold the lot and building to Samuel Cobbs for f8. (Ibid.,Deeds,Bonds 111, 464.)
Francis Sharp was granted lots #57 and #58 in the city of Williamsburg in 1713, but evidently failed to comply with the building clause in the deed (Ibid., 111 p.1); for the lots were again granted him 1717, with the building clause included. (Ibid., 111, 168.) As he owned the two lots until his death in 1740, he evidently erected buildings thereon, within the required twenty four months after the date of the second deed. In 1718, Sharp obtained a license to keep an ordinary in Williamsburg, and he probably kept it in his house on lot #57. At the time he wrote his will, August 14, 1739, Sharp owned houses on both lots, which were leased. (See reports on Burdetts's Ordinary, Block 17, Lot 58, and RED LION, block 17, lot 57.) By that time he had established himself in Surry County at a plantation known as "Young Thomas Smith's". Francis Sharp died in 1749, leaving his house and lots in Williamsburg, his plantation in Surry County, land in Surry and Isle of Wight Counties, and slaves and other personal estate to his children: Francis Sharp, John Sharp, Jacob Sharp, William Sharp, Sarah Sharp, Mary Sharp, Elizabeth Sharp Garris and Comfort Sharp King.
In 1717, while still living in York County, Sharp had difficulty with the law on two occasions, although, apparently in both instances, he was acquitted. At a court held June 17, 1717, for the County of York, Sharp was tried and found not guilty of a charge "presented by the Grand Jury for living in fornication with his late wife's sister." (York County Records, Wills, Orders, XV, 126.) On November 18, 1717, he was again tried by the York County Court "on suspicion of his having murdered John Marott." That court found that there was "just cause for trying the said prisoner at the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the murder whereof he is accused." He was therefore ordered... remanded to the prison of the County under the Custody of the Sheriff and from thence to be conveyed to the publick Goal at Williamsburg as the law in such cases directed. (Ibid., XV, 169.) The records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer are not extant, but the fact that Sharp continued to acquire property, and obtained an ordinary license in 1718, is sufficient evidence that he was again found "not guilty".

Family/Spouse: FITCHETT Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born about 1690 in Virginia; died before 1739 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]