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Subject: Matthias SCHARFENSTEIN
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:31:20 EDT

I can't answer your questions, but Chambers' book The Early Germans of New
Jersey, reports the transfer of a deed for about 132 acres of land next to the
Lutheran church lot in Potterstown, N.J., from Aree VAN GENEE to Matthias
SCHARFENSTEIN on July 29, 1741.

I am descended from Matthias SCHARFENSTEIN'S daughter, Anna, who married
Conrad PICKLE on April 11, 1751. Do you know which of Matthias' wives was the
mother of Anna?

Roger Flartey



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> Subject: SCHARFENSTEIN, SCHARPENSTEIN, SHARP in Tewksbury and Reading
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> 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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