This marker is in front of a small cemetery in a residential neighborhood, located at Twin Oaks Dr. at Teil Dr. Anthony Sharpe, a Revolutionary War patriot, served in McCroy's Company, Ninth N.C. Regiment, was granted 3,840 acres of land in the new Tennessee county of Davidson. The grant was dated April 9, 1788 under Warrant No. 52 and was surveyed by William Pollock D.S. The Sharpe grant covered six square miles from Winstead Hill to Roper's Knob. Included were 109 acres on which Abram Maury, who bought 640 acres from Sharpe, laid out the town of Franklin. In 1791, Sharpe married Margaret Nelson of Maryland, They had eight children-Sarah Sharpe Henry, Jane Sharpe Brodnax, Elizabeth Sharpe Jones, Ann Sharpe McPhail, Sala Sharpe, Searcy Sharpe, Sumner Sharpe, and Margaret Sharpe Camp. Major Sharpe brought his family to this county from Sumner County, TN in 1809.