Notes:
Name was spelled in various ways: Sharrets, Sharetz, Scheretz, Cherrot, etc. John Phillip was the fourth child of Conrat Scheretz, Sr. and Mary Margaret Laird. He spent his early childhood in the Manheim Twp., York Co. He moved with his family to Sullivan Co, TN in the fall of 1798. On Aug. 18, 1810, Conrad Sharets, Sr. worte an annuity to John in consideration of $2,025 in money and 225 acres of land located in Sullivan Co on which John was then residing. The land transaction was recorded at the Sullivan Co Court House on Aug. 7, 1810, priorto the writing of the annuity.
In consideration of the land and money, the annuity states that John was to provide his father and his father`s wife, Anna, yearly with the following:
15 bushels wheat
15 bushels rye
26 b ushels corn
26 bushels oats
75 weight of pork
75 weight of beef
13 weight of flax
13 weight of tabacco
1 ton hay
7 1/2 pounds potatoes
10 bushels turnips
$7.50
10 gal good merchantible whiskey
Sufficient quantity of firewood all to be delivered to Conrad, Sr`s dwelling house yearly, during his natural life. To Anna, John was to pay $5 yearly for five years. He was also to care for two sisters, Margaretta and Barbary. To each sister he was to pay 100 pounds Virginia currency as part of their dowries after their father`s death, of which one third was to be paid in cash and the other part to be paid in trade at cash prices. John was to begin his payments as this annuity herein outlined on Dec. 1, 1811.
John registered this annuity at the Sullivan Co ourt House on July 27, 1812 after the death of Conrad Sheretz, Sr. In 1812 John Sherits is listed in the early TN Tax Lists of Sullivan Co, TN. He began selling his land in Sullivan Co in 1818. On Mar 17, 1819 John purchased from Christian Foust 200 acres of land located o the West Fork of Flat Creek in Knox Co, TN for the sum of $1300. His name on this deed was spelled Sharerts. Before Oct 10, 1822 john deceased in Knox Co at approx 39 years of age. On Oct 10, 1822 Conrad Sherertz, Jr, John`s brother actins as administrator of John`s estate, filed a petition in the Knox Co Court. The petition requested that a sale of the real estate of John Sherertz, deceased, be made to satisfy the debts against his estate. The petition names John`s widow, Elizabeth, and his nine children; i.e., Jacob, John, Polly, Sally, Conrad, Daniel, Anna, Isaac and Benjamin. The petition also names Henry Sherertz, John`s brother, as guardian over the children. John`s land was eventually sold at public auction in April of 1823, being purchased by Conrad Sherertz, Jr, for the sum of $600, which was the amount needed to satisfy John`s debts. John Sherertz and his wife, Elizabeth, were married most likely in Sullivan Co, TN. However, due to the fact that the marriage records for Sullivan Co were destroyed during the Civil War, her maiden name remains unknown.
It is assumed that all nine children were of this union and most likely all were born in Sullivan Co, TN. Elizabeth seems to have left the Knox Co area shortly after the death of her husband. In the 1830 East Tennnessee Census there is an Elizabeth Sherid in Sullivan Co as the head of a household with six sons and three daughters, two sons were 5-10 yrs of age, two sons were 10-15, two sons were 15-20, one daughter was 10-15, two daughters were 15-20 and Elizabeth was 40-50. As Elizabeth appears in approximately the same location as where she and John were residing prior to their move to Knox Co, and being near neighbors who were previously associated with the family, we feel certain that these are John`s widow and children. There seem to be numerous descendants still in the Sullivan Co, TN area who have chosen to use the spelling Sharrets.
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