creating the University of North Carolina. He died near Statesville, North Carolina on July 6, 1818 and is interred in Snow Creek Burying Ground. References Wikitree biography of William Sharpe, accessed February 14, 2018 , Call number CR970 W56r c. 2 (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), William Sharpe Continental Congressmen from North Carolina 18th-century American politicians Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives North Carolina lawyers 1742 births 1818 deaths North Carolina militiamen in the American Revolution People from Statesville, North Carolina Members of the North Carolina Provincial Congresses 19th-century American lawyers