[1][2][3] Samuel Sharpe was a soldier whom came to Virginia in 1610 with most of the passengers and crew of the Sea Venture as they made their way to the colony after 10 months in Bermuda where they had wrecked in a storm.
[5][note 1] In Stanard,[6] in Wirt[7] and Grizzard and Smith,[8] Samuel Sharpe (not shown as "Sergeant") is listed as a burgess in the 1619 general assembly for Charles City.
Richmond, VA, 1915 as a convention, but the member list, which is based on Brown, Alexander, The First Republic in America, pp.
In the Introduction, p. xxv, the editor explains: "The material found in this volume is not made up altogether, or even in the main, of entire Journals of the House of Burgesses or of excerpts from these Journals, but of a few such excerpts, it is true, and of such papers of the House and of the General or Grand Assembly as a whole as are extant and have been found by the editor of the volume."
[17] In a list of patented land sent to England in 1625, Sharpe was shown with 40 acres in Charles City, the location of Bermuda Hundred.
[5] William Sharpe died after October 1629 but before February 12, 1635, when his widow, Elizabeth, who identified herself as William Sharpe's widow, patented land in the Varina area of Henrico County, just east of Henricus Island, on the basis of headrights.