Stephen Henry Northup (abt. 1656 - 1733)

Born about 1656 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Thomas) Northrup — married 11 Jul 1684 in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 12 May 1733 at about age 77 in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island

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Biography

Stephen was born 1660 ^[1]He died at age 76-77 and is buried in Rhobart Northup Lot, North Kingstown.^[2]

On 6 September 1687, he is cited on Gov. Andros' tax roll at Rochester (renamed later to Kingstown), Rhode Island owing a “pole” (poll) tax of 1 s, and a property tax of 4s 6d, which places him as an adult resident and property landholder in Kingstown, RI on this date. ^[3] This tax roll identifies a sum total of 136 heads of house living in the roughly 22.5 square mile area associated with Kingstown, RI on this date in 1687; one consequence of this sparse population is that he would have been well acquainted with many, if not all, of the individuals identified on this list. The list is a defacto definition of the people who were available to be his friends, neighbors, and allies; it would be essential to cultivate strong working relationships with these neighbors in order to survive on this frontier landscape. This cross reference tool provides hot links to peruse most of the 136 Wikitree families identified in this tax roll; families who were very frequently interconnected, or became interconnected, by marriage, over the course of their lives and throughout the ensuing generations, further binding a network of neighbors into extended families. ^[4]

• will North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island
• Burial North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island

Sources

1. ↑ William Guile Northup, Some Records of the Northup and Tucker Families of Rhode Island
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #112924847
3. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, Vol. II, Niles - Wilson; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore 1989. RI Taxes under Gov. Andros pages 592- 594.
4. ↑ Randolph Beebe; Cross Reference: Gov. Andros 1687 Rochester RI Tax Register to Wikitree profile; Wikitree Free Space Profiles, 2024.

• Chatfield, Carrie Eastman. Some Records of the Northrup and Tucker Families of Rhode Island (Minneapolis, 1914) Page 6.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SRSG-VP7 : accessed 2017-05-03), entry for Stephen Henry /Northrup/.
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 16 October 2019, 00:58), entry for Stephen Northrup JR(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L1QL-V1W); contributed by various users.
• Card, Eva Garsey, Descendants of Richard Card of Rhode Island, unpublished, no date.