John Sapp (1767 - 1833)

Ancestors

Husband of Isabela (Gray) Sapp — married 6 Jan 1791 in Madison County,Kentucky

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1833 at about age 66 in near Salem, Washington, Indiana, United States

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Biography

John was born about 1767.

John SAPP married Isabela GRAY on 5 Jan 1791 in KY,Madison-Co.

On 11 April 1814 he, along with his brothers Frederick, Edward & 3 partners bought 1000 acres of land known as the Brownlee Survey, located on Big Indian Creek in Washington Township Washington-Co, Indiana for $2 per acre.

In 1815 he moved to Indiana, Washington-Co & lived 4 miles west of Salem in Mill Creek Settlement.

Due to cholera, he and his wife died together on 14 July 1833 (per gravestone).^[1] Since they died within 50 minutes of each other, they were buried together in the same coffin (per report found on Genealogy.com) at Mill Creek Cemetery in IN,Washington-Co.

John was born in 1767. He passed away in 1833.

Background

Around 1814, John and Isabella Gray Sapp were preparing to make a trip to the Jeffersonville Federal Land Office to make their final payment on their pioneer homestead on the headwaters of Mill Creek in Washington Township, Washington County, Indiana Territory. John Sapp was a native of Maryland. He and Isabella were married in Madison County, Ky on January 6, 1791. After the death of his father in 1805, they moved to Clermont County, Ohio which was the 8th oldest county established in the entire Northwest Territory. This family of 7 soon learned of new land in the Indiana Territory. They then would have either trekked west in 1811 along Kibbey’s Trace which ran from Cincinnati to Vincennes or have taken a flatboat from Cincinnati to Jeffersonville. After a few days of temporary encampment near Royse’s Lick, their homestead was selected on the border of the Norman Upland and the Mitchell Plain. Soon after their settlement, their daughter Mary Katherine married Christopher Purkhiser. The Sapps were making their living as farmers at the time cholera came to England from India in 1832. They are buried at the Mill Creek Cemetery.

(Dudley Drewwright; http://200washcoin.blogspot.com/2014/05/)

On 4 October 1834 , Alanson Tribble and wife Nancy of Clermont County, Ohio, Thomas Sapp and wife Elizabeth of Fayette County, Indiana, George Sapp, Hartley Sapp and wife Nancy, Frederick Sapp and wife Polly, and Allen Brown and wife Isabella, all of Washington County, Indiana, conveyed unto John Sapp and Enoch Sapp of Washington County, Indiana, for $725, all their interest in a tract of land in the NW quarter of Section 15 in Township 2 north of the Base Meridian line of the lands directed to be sold at Jeffersonville. The deed does not state the ownership of the land. However, in studying the land grants and patents of early Washington County, Indiana, this tract of land matches that tract which was granted by the General Land Office on 21 May 1814 to John Sapp. John Sapp later received another tract of land on 1 October 1834 from the General Land Office, for 40 acres of land in the SE quarter of the NW quarter of section 9 in the Township 2 north of the third range east in the district of land subject to sale at Jeffersonville .

Based on this information, the parties involved in the 1834 deed above were the heirs and legatees of John Sapp and his wife Isabella. Both of them died on 14 July 1833 in Washington County, Indiana, during the cholera outbreak of that year; the stone implies both were about 60 years of age. Their age agrees with the 1830 census for Washington County, Indiana , which shows a household of five persons: John and his wife, the eldest female, were both 50-59 years of age, with a male aged 15-19 years, 1 male aged 20-29 years, and one female aged 15-19 years in the household. However, based on the 1820 census for Washington County, Indiana, John Sapp was born ante 1775, while the eldest female was born between 1776 and 1794.

Additionally, based on this information, this is the same John Sapp who married Isabella Gray on 6 January 1791 in Madison County, Kentucky ; Sapp’s marriage bond was dated 5 January 1791, with Richard Weste as his bondsman.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #16590965 for John SAPP.

• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current available on ancestry.com for John SAPP.

User Home Page at Genealogy.com.

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Sapp/6000000000328405429?through=6000000001011373929 Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

Book Title: A history of the Sapp family

1820 U S Census; Census Place: Washington, Indiana; Page: 214; NARA Roll: M33_14; Image: 322

Clift, G. Glenn. Second Census of Kentucky, 1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.

Clift, G. Glenn. Second Census of Kentucky, 1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2005.

Kentucky, U.S., Tax Lists, 1799-1801 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

Washington County, Indiana Deeds K: 348-350.

U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015, Ancestry, Accession No. CV-0021-252.

U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015, Ancestry, Certificate No. 3,765.