Isaac Sharp (1681–1735) was an early New Jersey settler, politician, judge and Colonel of the militia.
[1] As part of the Quaker settlement of his father's extensive land holdings in New Jersey, Isaac Sharp left Ireland in November 1700,[2] and after an arduous eighteen-week journey, arrived in Colonial America on April 6, 1701.
[5] Isaac Sharp married Margaret Braithwaite of Salem County in 1704, and had children: Anthony (who inherited the Queen's County, Ireland property), Isaac (also a Judge of Salem County Court, appointed by King George II in 1741), Joseph, Mary, Sarah and Rachel (mother of Colonel Sharp Delany).
[10] Isaac Sharp was also a Colonel of the militia of West New Jersey for Salem and Cape May.
[12] Isaac returned to Ireland in about 1726 and resided on his Queen's County property until his death in 1735.