"Early Germans of New Jersey", Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, 1895

CHRISTIAN SHARPENSTONE leaves a will dated at "Greenwich, Sussex Co.," 1793,
Sept. 27, prob. 1794, July 31; he names wife Helena, my brother Jacob and
his eldest son Henry, my sister Christina Shultz, my nephew John and his
son Christian Sharpenstone, my nephews John and Peter, my great nephew
Christian Shipman, and my neice Elisabeth Woolever. This Christian bought
250 acres from Christopher Falconberg, 1752, Nov. 9, near Bloomsbury, N. J.
The lower portion of this tract was sold by him to Jonathan Robins. In 1790
Christian Sharpenstone gives a deed for fifty acres of land near Blooms-
bury (See Clyde's History of Bloomsbury Pres. Church, p. 9).