Person:John Rowan (29)

THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. VOL. XX. 1896.

SHARP—DELANY—ROBINSON.—The present Sharpstown, in Salem County, New Jersey, was called Blessingtown by Isaac Sharp, the elder, after Blessington in County Wicklow and near the border of Kildare, on the road travelled by the Sharps from Roundwood to and from Dublin. Isaac Sharp, the elder, had some ten hundred and fifty acres of land in Gloucester County, New Jersey, which he called Rush Hall, as did his grandson fifty years after him. Rush Hall was the name of the residence of John Humphries, in Queen's County, Ireland. The marriage of Martin Delany to Hannah Sharp is mentioned in the following notes because the two Isaac Sharps, father and son, have been confounded, Martin's mother and wife each being the daughters of an Isaac. ISAAC SHARP, eldest son of Anthony Sharp, an Englishman, sometime a merchant in Dublin, came to New Jersey in 1702 or 1703. His father settled upon him seven-twelfths of one-twenty-fourth part of all East Jersev, and some proprietary rights in West Jersey. He was judge of Salem Court, a member of Assembly for Salem County from 1709 to 1725, returned to Ireland about 1726, and resided on his seat, " Round- wood," in Queen's County, where he died in 1735. He married Margaret Brathwaite, of Salem,"in 1704, and had born in Salem County, West Jersey: ANTHONY, who succeeded to his estates in Ireland and in Wiltshire, England. ISAAC, of Salem County, Blessingtown, now Sbarpstown, also a JOSEPH, of Salem County, died 1776. The brothers Isaac and Joseph had interests in Sussex County, New Jersey ; until 1795 the village of Hamburg, in that county, was called" Sharps- boro'. MARY. judge of Salem Court; died 1770. SARAH, married, first, Thomas Mason, of Salem; died 1740, leaving one son, John Mason. Married, second, Thomas Robinson, ofNaaman's Creek, who was in Ireland on business in 1737 and again in 1743; died in 1766, leaving: Abraham Robinson, who married, October 15,1767, Sarah Peurose. Thomas Robinson, who was lieutenant-colonel of the First Pennsylvania Line; married Mary Eyre, widow of Sir Isaac Coates, and had by her six children. Sarah Robinson, who married Judge Richard Peters. Margaret Robinson, who married Sharp Delany. RACHEL, married Daniel Delany, and in 1781 was living in Ire land. Of her children there were in America: Sharp Delany, of Philadelphia. William Delany, of Philadelphia. Martin Delany, who married Hannah, daughter of Isaac MARGARET, married, first, Thomas Hill, of Salem; died 1741, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Hill. Married, second, John Rowan, of Philadelphia, brewer; died 1759, and had: Thomas Rowan. John Rowan. Sharp, the youuger. Ann Rowan, married Jonathan Penrose. Margaret, widow of John Rowan, died in 1771. Her niece, Anne Rowan, married Charles Penrose. Letter of Daniel Delany (father of Sharp Delany), gentleman, of Bally Fin, Queen's County, Ireland. M' Sharp. , cg. " M*BATH Apr" 1" 1766. " Yours Mr J° Sharps and Matts dat" 27th Octr 1765 I Recd and have now sent you a full Act of your Famely Settm'. My sou Sharp Saw and Read them your Brother Anth: Sharp Thinks very litle wheitheryou sign or not, the Writings sent here was perfect4 with some litle alteration, all that mak's against your heirs is Instrem' made by your grand Feather in the yr 1703 which perhaps is not Sufficient, but that a Law' must determine. Sharp will let y" w1 Kind it is, I Conclude Dr Sr with Rachels lore and mine to you and M" Sharp who am " yp most aff' Brother and most Hum Servant [ On the back.] " To Isaac Sharp Esqr North America." " DANL DELANY. FOSTER CONAROE GRIFFITHS.

1.   Historical Society of Pennsylvania. THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. VOL. XX. 1896..

   MARGARET, married, first, Thomas Hill, of Salem; died 1741,
   leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Hill. Married, second, John
   Rowan, of Philadelphia, brewer; died 1759, and had: