THE THARP FAMILY of Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana: Ancestry and Descendants M.L.THORPE, Ph.D. v. I 181 SANTO TOMAS LANE SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93108-2525 (805) 969-2457 FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE X SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84150 Division Adjutant Division Commander NOEL ESTES JEFFREY L. TOWERY 12317 Navy St. 23515 Lyons Ave. # 156 Los Angeles,California 90066 Valencia, California 91355 (310) 398-8635 (805) 287-0125 Deputy Adjutant 1 st Lt. Commander KEN GILLIAM BARRON SMITH 11803 Bernardo Terr.#G106 450 Avenida De Socios # 9 San Diego, California 92128 Nipomo, California 93444 (619)675-1109 (805) 929-2089 B>rmfi nf Qfattfirtterate Helmuts CALIFORNIA DIVISION February 16, 1996 2nd Lt. Commander Family History Library CHARLES E. BESS 4836 Ganner Court Genealogical Society of Utah Pleasanton, California 94566 35 North West Temple Judge Advocate MICHAEL F. WRIGHT Salt Lake-City, UT 84150 , 330 South Irving Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90020 Dear Librarian: Surgeon General GEN. BAILEY B. McCUNE The enclosed two volumes are a history of one of the two P.O. Box 331 major Tharp families which expanded from the American colonies in Yorba Linda, California 92686 the 17th century, the Tharps of Maryland. (The other family's pro­ Chaplain JOHN W. BEST genitor was Thomas Tharp of Massachusetts.) As far as I am aware, 2143 Coronado Ave. Napa, California 94559-4240 this is the only history of the descendants of Thomas Tharp (or Genealogist MANER L. THORPE Thorpe) of Maryland; it has resulted from the research of a number 181 Santo Tomas Lane Santa Barbara, California 93108 of individuals whose contributions are acknowledged in the text it­ Signals Officer self, and compiled by the undersigned. Several cousins of the com­ STEPHEN G. HOLCOMB 23 Deodar piler, who are members of the LDS Church, have encouraged him to Irvine, California 92714 deposit a copy of the work in your library. The Tharp family history has grown slowly from typescripts Historian MAITLAND WESTBROOK, continually subjected to revision and expansion; this accounts for 1010 Gail Ave. Redlands, California 92374 two obvious deficiencies which make it difficult for researchers to Liaison NELSON E. RUCKER exploit, namely, the lack of page numbering and an index. These 18615 Holmes Ave. Cerritos, California 90701 deficiencies are now being eliminated as a project to computerize Color Sergeant the entire work is underway, but since this project will be extreme­ MICHAEL MOORE 17141 Sims St. ly time-consuming, I have decided to send the typewritten volumes Huntington Beach, California 92649 at this time. AIDES-DE-CAMP: Sincerely yours, CLIFTON M. LEE 161 Thorndike Way Folsom, California 95370 JAMES CHUMBLEY Maner L. Thorpe, Ph.D. 5082 Gazania Dr. San Jose, California 95111 Professor of Anthropology (Ret.) 1 • THORPE and ROANE JOHN _ ELIZABETH 13 BALL ( WEBB DAVID _MARY ROBERT=ANNE THOMAS WILLIAM _ MARGARET JOHN : WILLIAM _ F0X 1 — YOUNG J — BALL ATHEROLD' -1669 12 BCHRT_ utoemm J» . ** J&PZ? »^ SSS^ THOMAS = - WIL (ADBCU) WUJ#KN\U«BWrD KJIHH I KX TOC-169 7 1 - ROANE 1615-168•- ----0 V — (657 ^ » 11 CLAYTON -U76 , JOHN WILLIAM _ PRUDENCE «T™ UPSHAWI™ STiSSSS SSSifSE =; SHELTON 10 CLAYTON V LANGFORD -1689 \ XtN2 _L£LTTCE WIIJJAM_ELFA[StR wnJJ/M uniTAM HANNAH JOSEPH MARY ALEKANDER_ JEAN ISAAC _ SHELTON J BALL PARKS ' XtN _MARY PJQHARD_MARTHA JJW _ jm _ MARY = 9 THCMAS _rJJ2ABEIH TtCMAS. BEALE i CLAYTON ROAM" HAWKLNSf — ARNXD ( — J2ES -1720/ 1679-1743 l69«MT2tl THARP T — AUSmi -1476 -1686 I ~1701 JOHN _ SARAH JOHN3 ELEANOR JAMES JOHN _JANE WILLIAM 2 SARAH SPENCER = HORD I HORD = = HENRY I WINSTON SHELTON J PARKS THOMAS ELI2ABEIH JOSEPH PATIENCE ROANE I UPSHAW BALL ) 8 WILLIAM _ JANE JAMES= BARBARA I704- -1173 / 1710 - 1734 HAWKINS \ ARNOLD JONES ! BEALE -1757 V "l760 1707-1767 J AUSTI N J0 THARP T E^ ' — V7I5 c*-16e»-ca lT5o ' GILBERT WILLIAM LUCY 3 PATRICK_ SARAH WILLIAM = ELIZABETH HORD ; NORVELL THOMAS _ANN HENRY I SHELTON HUNT JOSEPH = SARAH ROANE ( BALL WILLIAM = WORTHINGTON — 1736-VT99 / I738-177S 7 JOHN _ ELIZABEIH HAWKINS [ JONES ) -I78S PEGG -1778 THARP ( JORDAN t700- ca.nn-J7C4\ c«..mo- 2 GILBERT = SARAH SPENCER ANNE HUNT J HORD SAMUEL _ CATHERINE ROANE ( HENRY THOMAS= ELIZABETH HAWKINS T WORTHINGTON THARP ^ PEGG 1764.-VSUW \759- FAYETTE ROANE ELIZABETH HUNT 1798-1835 ANDREW THARP f REBECCA HAWKINS 1792-1819 1781-1830 V 1788-1831 THOMAS JAMES THARP = SARAH /NNE ROANE 1810-1849 1816-1859 THOMAS MARY GUY ELIZABETH = ANDREW JOSEPHINE = HORACE LOUISE SPENCER HELENA = HUNT D. 3 PATRICK JANE = THOMAS CLIFFORD THORPE FISHER ROANE C. THORPE JOHNSON 1849-1909 1849-192? HENRY VAN BIBBER THORPE BIRD 1847-1907 1859-1907 THORPE BARBIN 1846-1912 1854-1912 THORPE 1&42-1905 1850-1935 1837-1881 18 48-18 7 3 SCALE A Langfords Creek, Langfords Bay Hundred, Kent County, Maryland: Ths Thorp bought 200 acres in 1674; 1:250,000 B "Austin," Tuckahoe Hundred, Talbot County, Maryland:Tharso Williamn of Thomas n , acquired 50 acres upon his marriage in 1710 and 50 more acres by purchase in 1717; 5cres in 1735 and John Tharp, son of William, C "Coleraine," Queen Annes County, Maryland: William Tharp bought acquired 50 acres upon his marriage about 1739. SCALE D Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware: John Tharp was a taxpayer 1751-1755; 1:250,000 E Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware: John Tharp was a taxpayer 1756-1764 and Thomas, son of John, was a tax ratable in 1760-1778; . 7C.p F. "Ruttington," Mispillion Hundred, Kent County, Delaware: John Tharp tht over 180 acres in l/DB PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE MLT From D. L. Corbitt, Formation of North Carolina Counties, 1663-1943 NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES - 1740-1840 THE THARP FAMILY IN MARYLAND, DELAWARE AND NORTH CAROLINA Current understanding of the history of the Tharp family in Mary­ land, Delaware and North Carolina is based entirely on the careful and extensive research of Robert L. Tharp of Wyoming, Ohio (293 Fleming Road, Cincinnati, OH 45215). Although Tharp forthrightly cautions that some of the more important relationships are not yet proven and many of the dates are still estimates, his conclusions nevertheless order a wide array of known facts while introducing no anomalies, and so inspire confidence that they are a close approximation to historical reality. In the follow­ ing pages attention is focused on the lineage of Thomas Tharp (c.1744 - c.1804), omitting the numerous earlier collateral lines of descent that are covered in the wider scope of Robert Tharp's historical research. A word on the spelling of the surname: the original "Thorp(e)" was alternatively spelled "Tharp(e)" in 17th and early 18th century records, no doubt reflecting its local pronunciation then, and by the mid-18th cen­ tury "Tharp" was the form written by all descendants of the family, though clerks and other record-keepers often wrote "Thorpe," judging this to be correct. Only a few families, certainly unaware of the name's history in this country, changed "Tharp" back to "Thorpe" in the mid-19th century. Surviving provincial records from 17th-century Maryland indicate that Thomas Thorpe came to the province in 1673 (Gust Skordas, ed., The Early Settlers of Maryland, Baltimore 1968, 462): Thorpe, Thomas Liber 17, Folio 463 Transported 1673. In the following year Thomas Thorpe bought land in Kent Co., Maryland (Liber A, Folios 323-29); an abstract of the deed is as follows: April 20, 1674. Jacob Johnson and Hannah his wife to Thomas Tharpe, all of Kent Co., for 4,300 pounds of tobacco and cask, all that par- cell of land called Pentridge "which I bought of Patrick Sullivant and his wife lying on a Creek called Langford bay in the County of Kent beginning at a marked oak standing by the Creek side going un­ to a marked bounded tree of a parcell of land formerly laid out for Thomas Hill and running up the said Creek for 180 perches to a mark­ ed oak and from the said oak north west for the length of 400 perch­ es and from thence Northeast 80 perches, &c., containing 200 acres more or less. Witnesses: Richard Lowder, Ebenezer Blackiston Thomas Thorpe settled in Langford's Bay Hundred, which lay in southern Kent Co. between Chester Lower Hundred on the east and Swan's Creek Hun­ dred on the west; Henry Hosier, Sr., one of the signers of Thorpe's will in 1685, was appointed one of the Constables of Langford's Bay in 1686 (George A. Hanson, Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland. Notes Illus­ trative of the Most Ancient Records of Kent County. Maryland. &c., Balti­ more 1876, 322, 324). The will of Thomas Thorpe has sufficient points of interest that its presentation in full seems warranted (Prerogative Court. Wills. Liber 4, Folios 233-234, 21 November 1686 [Maryland State Archives S538, Maryland Hall of Records 1284, 1-11-1-6]): In the name of God Amen the tenth day of Nov'ber 1685. I Thomas Thorp being sick in body but of good and perfect memory thank? be to allmighty God for and calling to remembrance the uncertaine of this transitory life and that all flesh must yealde unto death when it shall pleas God to call I doe make constitute ordaine and declare this my last will and Testament in maner and forme following revoek- S/bv admJllln§ by these P'sents all wills or will by me o« made by word or by writing and this to be taken only for my last Srf rfJ Testament> and ^rst I commit my soale unto God my Saviour and redeemer in whome and by the merrits of Jesus Christ I trust and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full remission and forgive- S2n i my S^nS 3Vd my ^ to be buried ^ such place where it shall please my Exect'r hereafter named to appoint.