Person:Esther Culbertson (1)

Elizabeth Lindsay Culbertson, wife of Matthew Sharp, descends from the well known Scotch family of Lindsay, which dates back to the days of William the Conqueror. Her father, Lieutenant James Lindsay, was collector of revenue in Cumberland county, in the years 1764-69. (Penn. Archives, vol. ix, p. 788). He was a lieutenant in the Provincial forces of Pennsylvania, in Captain David McAllister's company, First Battalion, in regiment commanded by Colonel James Burd. He was commissioned April 25, 1760, and was in active service that year, (Penn. Archives, ed. 1876, vol. ii, p. 605). His daughter Elizabeth (Mrs. Matthew Sharp) was a remarkably handsome woman, high spirited, and the belle of her county (Franklin). Her first husband, whom she married at the age of sixteen years, was Robert Culbertson, a soldier of the Revolution, by whom she had five children: Esther, married her cousin Andrew, son of Colonel Robert Culbertson; Elizabeth, married her cousin, William Lindsay, and removed to Kentucky; Jane, married John Hancock, an English gentleman; Samuel, married a Miss Monk; Agnes, married James B. Clow. In 1780, when about twenty-five years old, Elizabeth (Lindsay) Culbertson married her second husband, Matthew Sharp, by whom she had three children: Rosana, James, and Mary. In 1798 she married (third) Robert Peebles, nephew of Colonel Robert Peebles, of the Revolutionary army. The issue of the last marriage is not recorded. Of the three children of Matthew and Elizabeth (Lindsay-Culbertson) Sharp, James and Rosana (Mrs. John Liggett) are further referred to; the youngest child, Mary, born 1789, died March, 1859, married Martin Hawkins.