William Cudworth. 1889. Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp, the Yorkshire Mathematician and Astronomer, and Assistant of Flamsteed. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
Get it: All sources.- 3 July 1643: The Royalists take Bradford after the Second Siege, but are warned off massacring the inhabitants by a ghost
- 5 February 1649: The Puritan John Sharp of Bradford, on military service at Hull, writes passionately to his “cousin” at York
- 14 March 1655: Mary Sharp of Little Horton, Bradford, writes to her son Sam at Cambridge, in the year preceding his death, of his “misery by nature”
- 24 May 1669: Abraham Sharp (16), later mathematician and astronomer, undertakes not to fornicate for the next eight years and is apprenticed to a York textile merchant
- 23 June 1674: Oliver Heywood attends the funeral of Martha Stansfield and her baby
- 24 March 1703: The mathematician and astronomer Abraham Sharp experiences the northern lights for the first time, at Little Hortonn, Bradford
- 7 December 1703: Abraham Sharp writes to John Flamsteed of the difficulties of observing Jupiter from Little Horton, Bradford
- 19 October 1715: Abraham Sharp of Halifax fears for the fate of his scientific instruments
- 19 November 1715: Writing to the astronomer John Flamsteed, Abraham Sharp of Little Horton (Bradford) hopes that defeat at the Battle of Preston has ended local Jacobite aspirations
- 16 December 1722: Thomas Nettleton of Halifax recounts to James Jurin his success in inoculating against smallpox
- 30 August 1766: “I will haf tish man, he gifs my pipes room for to shpeak”: organ-builder John Snetzler selects an organist for Halifax parish church
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