Israel Knapp Jr. (1743 - 1790)

Born 1 May 1743 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Hungerford — married about 1767 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1790 at age 47 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Israel was born in 1743 to Israel Knapp and Amy Marshall in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.

In about 1767, Israel married Margaret Hungerford. They had at least seven children.

In 1790, Israel passed away at age 46 in Greenwich. He died intestate and adm. was given on (25 Oct 1790) to William Thompson, of Greenwich, Esq., Cornelius j. Bogert, of New York City, Esq., and William T. Robinson, of New York City, merchant.^[1]

Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, by Spencer P. Mead, 1911, page 172-173, 176-177 [1]

Putnam Cottage... during the Revolutionary War was owned by Captain Israel Knapp, and kept as a tavern by him. He had two sons, Timothy and Israel; and five daughters, Mary, who married Stephen Mead, a Revolutionary soldier; Elizabeth, never married; Hannah who married Abraham Husted, a Revolutionary soldier; Amy who died young; and Amy, who married Captain Jabez Fitch. Jabez Fitch was town clerk and registrar all through the Revolutionary War and for many years thereafter, and also a Revolutionary soldier.

Israel Knapp, Jr. was chosen one of the Committee of Safety for the year 1776; was one of the surveyors of highways in 1787; was made a mason in Union Lodge at Stamford in 1780, and was its master from 1781 to 1785. Colonel Thomas Hobby of the Continental Army, when he drew his will on the twenty ninth day of October, 1783, named Israel Knapp as one of his executors. It is not at all probable that Colonel Hobby would have a tory as one of his executors nor the town a tory on its Committee of Safety nor select a tory for one of its officers in 1787, nor Union Lodge elect a tory as its master...

Captain Israel Knapp died in 1783, and on the probate of his will title to his place on Putnam Avenue passed to his son, Israel Knapp, Jr., who was born on the first day of May, 1743, and married Margaret Hugerford about 1767, by whom he had:

Fanny, b. in 1768, d. June 11, 1788, m. William A. Thompson.

Israel, bapt. Oct. 14, 1770, d. young.

Frances, b. in 1771, m. Charles K. Thompson.

Sally W., bapt. Feb. 13, 1774, m. David Wood.

Elizabeth H., b. Aug. 28, 1777, d. in 1848, m. Oct. 8, 1795, John Mackay, Jr.

Anna, bapt. Mch. 17, 1782, m. William Thorn of New York.

Cornelia, bapt. Jan. 6, 1788, d. in New Orleans m. ___ Read.

Israel Knapp, Jr., died intestate on the twentieth day of August, 1790, seized of the premises formerly known as the "Knapp Tavern," later the "Tracy House," and now known as the "Putnam Cottage."

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogical Data from New York Administrative Bonds 1753-1799 abstracted by Kenneth Scott. Collection of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. X, 1969

• 1790 Connecticut Deaths [2][3]
• Findagrave [4]