Hannah Ferris

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Sep 1724

Hannah married Capt. John Knapp on 10 Jun 1692 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. John (son of Caleb Knapp and Hannah Smith) was born on 25 Jul 1664 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 5 Apr 1749 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moses Knapp and Jemima Mead were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Caleb Knapp and Hannah Smith.

Ancestors of the political Romney family:

Moses Knapp (1709-1787) = Jemima Mead (1708-1766)
Abraham Knapp (1737-1836) = Martha Comstock (?-?)
Sarah Knapp (1757-1807) = Charles Robison (1746-1826)
Charles Robison (1785-1840) = Jerusha Rebecca Kellogg (1785-1836)
Lewis Seth Robison (1816-1883) = Clarissa Minerva Duzette (1822-1891)
Charles Edward Robison (1845-1883) = Rosetta Mary Berry (1843-1918)
Alma Luella Robison (1882-1938) = Harold Arundel LaFount (1880-1952)
Lenore LaFount (1908-1998) = George Wilcken Romney (1907-1995)
Willard Mitt Romney (1947- )

Moses married Jemima Mead on 25 Nov 1731. Jemima (daughter of Ebenezer Mead and Sarah Knapp) was born about 1708 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 1766 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Moses married Rachel Weed on 12 May 1767. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1788, Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut
• Alternate death: 11 Oct 1821
• Alternate death: 15 Oct 1821

Notes:

Possibly a soldier in the Revolution. Claimed by various sources as a Minute Man, a private in Co. 9, 5th Conn. Regiment, and a major commanding the 11th Massachusetts.

His Find a Grave page calls him "Sergeant" and says "Moses Knapp stood with his neighbors on their Town Green on 18 July 1776 and swore an oath to uphold and defend their liberties and freedoms fourteen days after the Declaration of Independence had been signed. In 1775 he served in Capt. Nehemiah Beardsley's 9th Company of Col. David Waterbury's 5th Connecticut Regiment. In July 1779 he was part of an expedition to Fairfield and Norwalk for defense of this and the rest of the United States of America, serving in the 6th Alarm List of Col. Nehemiah Beardsley's 16th Connecticut Regiment."


Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (citation details below) says: "Moses was a Minute Man in the Rev. War. He was a Major and commanded the 11th Battalion, Mass. Continental Army, Nov., 1788? He was a private in Co. 9, 5th Conn. Regt."

Moses married Margaret Kasson on 8 Sep 1760. Margaret (daughter of James Kasson and Esther Duncan) was born on 3 Sep 1741 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut; died on 30 Aug 1815 in Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Lichtfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Calvin married Deborah Hopkins on 12 Nov 1800. Deborah (daughter of Elijah Hopkins and Joanna Parish) was born about 1780; died on 6 Sep 1831. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]