[3][4] Sharpe was among the passengers who were cast away on Bermuda when the Sea Venture was shipwrecked there on its way to the Colony of Virginia with additional supplies, colonists and the new governor, Sir Thomas Gates in 1609.
[5][6][7] The passengers and crew of the Sea Venture built two small ships, the Patience and the Deliverance and ultimately arrived at Jamestown on May 24, 1610.
Richmond, VA, 1915, p. viii shows Sharpe as the representative for Westover, an incorporation of Charles City in the 1623/24 assembly.
[12] Samuel Sharpe helped inventory the estate of George Thorpe of Berkeley Hundred who had been killed during the attack.
"[5][13] Sharpe noted that the sickness and death in the colony made it difficult for anyone to plant crops or conduct business.
[5] He declared that most of the men who arrived on the Abigail had died, including George Paul, whose help he had sought from Governor Yeardley.
[5][14][15] Records showed that Sharpe and his wife Elizabeth were living at Flowerdew Hundred Plantation on February 16, 1624 and were still there on January 20, 1625.
[5] In July 1626, having been identified as a gentleman, Sharpe and others testified that their goods and tobacco had been wrongfully detained at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, England because of a dispute between the ship's master of the Temperance' and its owner.
[5] Also, Lists of the Livinge & the Dead in Virginia, compiled February 16, 1623, shows "Serjeant William Sharpe" residing at the Neck of Land.
[24] None of the references found for this page give further information about Samuel Sharpe after 1626 such as whether or when he returned to Virginia and his date of death.