Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Maj. Sharp(e) and Jemima Alexander




Husband Maj. Sharp(e)

            AKA: Maj. John Sharp,1 Thomas Sharpe 2 3
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1759
         Buried: 
       Marriage: 



Wife Jemima Alexander 2 4

           Born: 9 Jan 1727 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Sep 1797 3
         Buried: 


         Father: James Alexander (Abt 1695-1779) 5 6
         Mother: Margaret McKnitt (      -      ) 2 7




Children

General Notes: Husband - Maj. Sharp(e)


He removed from Maryland to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, about the year 1754.


General Notes: Wife - Jemima Alexander


She married a "Major" Sharp and migrated about 1754 from New Munster in Cecil County, Maryland, in company with her brothers Hezekiah and John McKnitt Alexander to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Her husband, Major Sharp, has been referred to in certain family records as "Thomas", in others as "John". He was possibly a son of Thomas Sharp, Sr., but his identity remains unfixed. In one of the Sharp family records, this John is said to have been the seventh son of James Sharp who "emigrated from North Ireland and settled in southeastern Pennsylvania near the Maryland line in 1712."


Notes: Marriage

Their children:
1. Ezekiel, who married Catherine Alexander.
2. John (1752-1824), a Revolutionary officer, who married Martha Young. Their great-grandson was Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
3. James, who married Rachel Cannon.
4. Isabella, who married a Rev. Price, grandson of Isabella Price. Their grandson was Gen. Sterling Price, of Missouri.
5. Priscilla, who married Lewis [Unk]; had issue.
6. Jemima, who married Theophilus Alexander Cannon.

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Sources


1 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 55, 68.

2 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 205.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 68.

4 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 55.

5 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 208.

6 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 6, 53.

7 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 53.


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