George Sharp

• Name	George Sharp
  Gender	Male
  Departure	Jul 1684
  Arrival	Oct 1684	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA   [1]
  	Imported by Gilbert Innes
  Role	1685	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Indentured servant
  Property	4 Jan 1694/95	East Jersey, New Jersey, USA
  	Deed, John Sharp of New York, carpenter, to John Cockburn of the same place, mason, for the headland of 60 acres due him and his brother George Sharp, who came from Scotland to East Jersey as servants of Gilbert Innes in 1684
  Property	20 Jan 1695/96	Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA   [2, 3]
  	Patent to John Cockburn of Newark, mason for 205 acres there, of which 55 acres are paid for, 30 are given in right of Benjamin Griffith and 120 are for the headland of Robert Anderson, Mathew Gracie, John and George Sharp
  Person ID	I45232	East Jersey Genealogies
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2025

  
  

  Father	father Sharp
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F31309	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Property - Patent to John Cockburn of Newark, mason for 205 acres there, of which 55 acres are paid for, 30 are given in right of Benjamin Griffith and 120 are for the headland of Robert Anderson, Mathew Gracie, John and George Sharp - 20 Jan 1695/96 - Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p231. [S3607] Nelson, William, Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, p272. [S3652] "Early Land Records, 1650-1900s", State of New Jersey, Department of State, Early Land Records, 1650-1900s, F(EJ): Folio 434-437 (SSTSE023).