Eleanor SHARP

Father: John SHARP
Mother: Jane HAMILTON

Family 1: John DUNCAN

  1. Elizabeth DUNCAN
  2. John DUNCAN
  3. Margaret DUNCAN
  4. Joseph DUNCAN
  5. Sarah DUNCAN
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 _John SHARP ____|
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Notes

Updated December 13, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) LAUGHLIN, Samuel Hervey, "A Diary of Public Events and Notices of My Life and Family and Of My Private Transactions including Studies, Travels, Readings Correspondence, Business Anecdotes, Miscellaneous Memoranda of Men, Literature, Etc From January 1st, 1845 to August, 1845 and Sketch of my Life from Infancy"

"John DUNCAN (sometimes spelled DUNKIN erroneously), my maternal grandfather, was a native of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, and married Eleanor, sister of the foregoing John SHARP, before the families emigrated to Virginia about 1764 or 1765. He and his family with many of their relatives removed to Kentucky by way of Cumberland Gap and Crabb Orchard, and settled in the country around about where Lexington now stands, then, as I have often heard him describe it, one of the most beautiful and rich new countries the eye of man ever be-held. He located and settled on a little river called Kingston's Ford of Licking, I believe. In the year 1780-or between 1779 and 1781-BUTLER's and MARSHALL's Histories of Kentucky will show the date, a statement in regard to which was communicated in 1842, and published at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the American Pioneer, by Benjamin SHARP, my grandfather's brother, in relation to the affair (see that work Vol. 1 page 359), my grandfather and his family, and all his friends, with all persons captured in Riddles and Martin's Station, old and young, black and white, were carried as prisoners by a party of British and Canadians, and a large number of Indians, and carried to Canada. They were carried down the Licking River to its mouth, between the two present Kentucky towns of Newport, where the United States have extensive barracks, and Covington, and opposite to the present site of the City of Cincinnati. From thence they were taken in boats and canoes down to the mouth of the great Miami, twelve miles, and thence up that river, and then by land and water to Detroit, now the Capitol of the new state of Michigan, and finally to Montreal. There, they were retained as prisoners until the close of the war when they were exchanged and returned to the United States through what is now northern and western New York, and through New Jersey to Philadelphia, where Congress was sitting, and thence to Western Virginia, from whence they had removed four or five years before..."

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 via Ancestry.com

- Name: Eleanor SHARP
- Gender: female
- Birth Place: VA
- Birth Year: 1740
- Spouse Name: John DUNCAN
- Spouse Birth Place: PA
- Spouse Birth Year: 1743
- Marriage Year: 1761
- Marriage State: PA

(3) Mostert family records, August 4, 2000.

"Name was also spelled Elinor or Nelly."