Sharp Delany

Sharp Delany
BornIreland
Died(1799-05-13)May 13, 1799
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Place of burial
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service / branchContinental Army
Years of service1776-1779
RankColonel
Commands2nd Battalion Pennsylvania Militia
Battles / warsAmerican Revolutionary War

Sharp Delany (c. 1739-1799), was a colonel in the American Revolutionary War[1] a legislator and the first Collector of Customs in Philadelphia, appointed by George Washington.[2]

  1. ^ Egle and Busch (1890). Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution: Associated Battalions and Militia, 1775-1783. Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, p. 640
  2. ^ Simpson, Henry (1859). The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians Now Deceased. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead, p. 308