Joseph Tharp

???? - 1744


Biography

Joseph Tharp of Hanover, planter. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1749. Slave-ownership at probate: 40 of whom 23 were listed as male and 17 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £1475.25 Jamaican currency of which £1048 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £57.5 currency debts and £3.5 currency plate.

Tentatively identified as the son of John Tharp II of Hanover. He married Margaret Frost of Westmoreland, and died in 1744, predeceasing his father: much of his father John Tharp II's property passed to Joseph Tharp's son John Tharp IV.


Sources

Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.

Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1871) vol. II p. 1369.


Further Information

Spouse
Margaret Frost

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

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  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1737 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Guardian

Tentative association with this Joseph Tharp.


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Ostensibly grandfather, although Mary Ann may have been...
Uncle → Nephew
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Inventories (1)