Job SHARP ⁵⁷⁴

   Another name for Job was Joe SHARP.⁵⁷²

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Land, 23 Sep 1800, , , Ohio, USA. ⁵⁷⁵ I belive this is the land he moved to in December of 1801.

Ohio Land Records
Name: JOB SHARP
Warrantee Name: JOHN SPOTSWOOD
Land Office: OHIO
Document Number: 597
Total Acres: 1000
Signature: Yes
Canceled Document: No
Issue Date: September 23, 1800
Metes and Bounds: Yes
Survey Date: 1799/05/13
Statutory Reference: 1 Stat. 82
Multiple Warantee Names: No
Act or Treaty: August 10, 1790
Multiple Patentee Names: Yes
Entry Classification: Script Warrant Act of 1790
Remarks: JAMES MCCONNALL AND THOMAS SMITH
Land Description: 1 No

2. Moved, Dec 1801, , Hamilton, Ohio, USA. ⁵⁷² It is hard to say if it was Hamilton, Ross or Wayne county, but now it is in Logan County.

It was a December sun, smiling wanly down on a landscape white with snow, which witnessed the arrival in this land of promise of the first overland emigrants, Joe Sharp, his wife, Phoebe, and three children, Achsa, the oldest daughter; Joshua, their only son, and Sarah, the youngest child. Accompanying them was Mrs. Sharp's young brother, Carlisle Haines. The journey was made with a team of four horses, but whether by vehicle is not known. But we are told that the first wheeled vehicle of any description did not enter the county until two or three years later than the Sharp family, so that if there was a vehicle at all it could only have been a "drag" or mud sled. They brought with them all their supplies for the winter that lay ahead of them. The day was Christmas, 1801. By nightfall their camp had been cleared and their first rude cabin constructed from the logs that had been felled that day.

The presence of dead bees lying on the snow led, also the same day, to the discovery of four "bee trees," a variety of Christmas tree which even a Quaker family must have approved, and the bounty of the bees was added to the stock of provisions in the little log cabin. Backed by health and imbued with hardy courage, the pioneers who came so well provided as these were already wealthy. Not every white settler who braved the wilderness in search of a spot to call his own, came with hands so full.

By the opening of spring, 1802, sufficient space had been cleared for planting the first corn crop, and four acres were devoted to setting out an apple orchard, the first in the county. Mrs. Sharp had brought from Chillicothe a sapling pear tree, which she had used as a riding switch on the way to the new home on the Darby, and this was set out beside the cabin door, where it took root and survived in a bearing condition as long as the apple orchard-a period of seventy to seventy-five years.

Job married Phebe HAINES, daughter of Solomon HAINES and Rebecca SHARP, on 26 Aug 1780 in , Burlington, New Jersey, USA ⁵⁴⁸.^,574 (Phebe HAINES was born on 26 May 1759 ⁵⁷⁴ and died in 1833 ⁵⁷⁴.)