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From: Fritz Stewart <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] SCHARFENSTEIN, SCHARPENSTEIN, SHARP in Tewksburyand Reading
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:01:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000d01c4980e$44225000$5675f3d8@yourzpvq75jcr6>


Richard -

I, too, am a descendent of Dorothy Sharp(enstein) and William Welsch, Jr.
Their son Moritz (Morris) married Margaret Cramer (d/o Mathias Cramer and
Anna Maria Henn), and I'm down several generations from there.

The only information that I have on Johann Moritz Scharfenstein beyond what
you wrote is that he was naturalized on 14 Aug 1750.

I would be very interested in a picture of Dorothy's gravestone. I have one
of her husband's which is still there.

-Fritz Stewart


On 9/11/04 10:47 AM, "Richard Welch" <> wrote:

> Matthias SCHARFENSTEIN was a Palatine, born about 1678 in Urbach, Grafschaft
> Wied (north of Koblenz, Germany). He married Dorothea Maria, daughter of
> Johannes Wilhelm WEYER, in 1713 in Urbach. Dorothea Maria died in 1725 in
> Urbach and Matthias married Anna Gertrude SCHULTZ (she was possibly a widow
> named ALSDOR) in 1731 in Urbach. Matthias was naturalized in New Jersey in
> 1744, so his date of arrival was probably at about that time. Does anyone know
> his exact date of arrival and the name of the ship? He died in Reading
> Township of Hunterdon County in 1756. Where are he and Anna Gertrude buried?
>
> One of Mathias and Dorothea Maria's sons was Johannes Morris SCHARFENSTEIN who
> was born and baptized in 1714 in Urbach. Morris and his wife, Catherine, were
> probably married in Urbach in the mid 1730s and eventually settled in
> Tewksbury Township, Hunterdon County in 1764. They then moved to "Upper German
> Valley" in 1767 where he died in 1781. What was his date of arrival in North
> America and where are he and his wife buried? What was Catherine's maiden
> name?
>
> The family's name in Germany was spelled SCHARFENSTEIN and was later
> anglicized to SCHARPENSTEIN and SHARP, but it was often misspelled in early
> records. The correct spelling of the name in German is SCHARFENSTEIN which
> means "Sharp stone". The other spellings have no meaning in German and
> spelling it as "Scharfensteen" would create a mispronunciation of the name.
>
> I would like to hear from other descendants and share information. I am
> descended from Morris and Catherine's daughter, Dorothea (1751-1828), who
> married William Welsch, Jr. For those who are interested, I have a
> photograph of Dorothea's gravestone in the old cemetery in Long Valley that I
> will gladly share with other descendents. The stone is now gone.
>
> Richard Welch
> Farmington, New Mexico
>
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