Ephraim Trapp (1781 - 1809)

Ancestors

Died 1809 at about age 28 in Barbados

Biography

Ephraim was born in 1781 in Norwich, Connecticut. He was the son of Ephraim Trapp and Anna Bentley. His father died about 1795 and his mother remarried to John Lancaster.

Ephraim was a Seaman out of Norwich, Connecticut. He died while at sea and passed away in 1809 (age 28) in Barbados. He left a nuncupative Will, and made his mother Anna (Bentley) Lancaster his heir.

Sources

• Employment: "Web: US, New England Seamen's Protection Certificate Index, 1796-1871"
  Original data: Seamen's Protection Certificate Register Database. Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea. http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/protectionindex.cfm: accessed 24 August 2014; Certificate Number: 2312; URL: http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/ProtectionDetail.cfm?id=39295. Name: Ephraim Trapp; Declaration Date: 20 May 1802; Declaration Port: New London; Age: 21; Birth Year: abt 1781; Birthplace: Norwich, Connecticut; Height: 5' 10".
• Death: "Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934"
  Connecticut State Library; Hartford, Connecticut. Ephraim Trapp death 1809 (age 29) in St Bartholomews.
• Death: "Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934"
  FHL Film Number: 3248. Original Data: "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records. Ephraim Trapp death 3 Jan 1810 (age 29) in Norwich, Connecticut. [NOTE: Date is Probate date for nuncupative Will.]
• Probate: "Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999"
  Probate Files Collection, Early to 1880; Author: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut. Ephraim Trapp probate in 1810 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Nuncupative Will. Executor: John Lancaster (step father).