[1] In 1665, impressed by the ministry of William Dewsbury at a meeting in Warwick prison, he joined the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.
[2] In the summer or early fall of 1669, due to persecution of his Quaker religious beliefs, he fled from Gloucestershire and moved to Dublin and engaged in the woollen trade,[3] in which he was highly successful.
Subsequently, when William Penn purchased land in East Jersey, Sharp also became an owner of property there as well.
[7] Among those appointed to found the colony was Anthony's nephew, Thomas Sharp,[8] with whom he corresponded on both business and personal matters.
[10] Anthony Sharp died on 13 January 1707, and was buried in the ancient Friends' burying-ground adjacent to St. Stephen's Green in the city of Dublin.