Capt. Alexander Sharp

Alexander Sharp

• Birth: Nov., 1756 Cumberland County Pennsylvania, USA
• Death: Dec. 8, 1824 Cumberland County Pennsylvania, USA
• Place of Burial: Newville Cemetery, Newville Borough, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
• Son of Thomas Sharp and Margaret Mary (Elder) Sharp
• Husband of 1) Margaret McDowell (McDowell) Sharp 2) Isabella (Oliver) Sharp

Biography

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Alexander Sharp served several short enlistments in the early part of the Revolutionary war, and later was engaged in the important service of furnishing supplies to the army. He located in Newton township shortly after the close of the Revolution, on land entered by his father, Thomas Sharp, in May, 1746. He was a man of great energy, and much of the improvement and development of his part of the county in his day were due to his enterprise. He engaged extensively at farming, milling, tanning and distilling, and shipped his surplus products by wagon to Baltimore. Captain Sharp, as he was familiarly called, inaugurated the custom of keeping wagons continually upon the road, and by intelligent and careful management made the traffic pay. His practical mind saw the advantage of having narrow tread wheels for mud roads, and Inroad tread for turnpikes, and when the turnpike was completed from Baltimore to Hanover, he kept an extra set of wheels for each of his wagons at Hanover, and would change from narrow to broad tread on reaching the beginning of the turnpike.

Capt. Alexander Sharp was married to Margaret McDowell, daughter of John McDowell, of Kishacoquillas Valley, Mifflin county, and by her had five sons and one daughter : John married Jane McCune, and engaged at farming in Newton township south of Oakville. William M. graduated from Dickinson College, studied medicine and practiced his profession in Newville, he married Jane Wilson. Andrew married Rosanna McDowell, of Mifilin county, and engaged at fanning in Newton, he died in midille life. Thomas died in the thirtieth year of his age, unmarried. Eleanor married a Mr. McCune, of near Shippensburg. The wife and mother, died Aug. 15, 1810, in her fifty-first year, and Capt. Sharp afterward married Isabella Oliver, a daughter of James and Mary (Buchanan) Oliver, of the part of the county that is now included in Silver Spring township. By his second marriage he had no children.

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Spouses:

• Margaret McDowell Sharp (1759 - 1810)*
• Isabella Oliver Sharp (1771 - 1843)*

Children:

• Margaret Sharp (1782 - 1797)*
• John Sharpe (1788 - 1832)*
• Alexander Sharp (1796 - 1857)*
• William McDowell Sharp (1798 - 1835)*
• Thomas Sharp (1801 - 1830)*
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Burial: Newville Cemetery Newville Cumberland County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Section 25

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Created by: PaGenieGirl Record added: Sep 17, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 42075368

References

• Ancestry.com. Biographical annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Biographical annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania : containing genealogical records of representative families, including many of the early settlers, and biographical sketches of prominent citizens.. Chicago: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1905. Page 64. < AncestrySharing >
• Ancestry.com. Biographical annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Biographical annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania : containing genealogical records of representative families, including many of the early settlers, and biographical sketches of prominent citizens.. Chicago: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1905. Page 65. < AncestrySharing >