Benjamin Tappan

1747 - 1831  (83 years)

• Name	Benjamin Tappan  [1]
  Birth	21 Oct 1747	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	21 Oct 1747	Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Death	29 Jan 1831	Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4, 6, 7]
  Burial	Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I20705	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Rev. Benjamin Tappan,   b. 28 Feb 1721, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 6 May 1790, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Marsh,   b. 29 Jun 1723, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts d. 24 Sep 1807, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1746  [4]
  Family ID	F12509	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Holmes,   b. 2 Jan 1748, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 21 Mar 1826, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	22 Oct 1770	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Tappan, Senator from Ohio,   b. 25 May 1773, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 20 Apr 1857, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio (Age 83 years)   2. Arthur Tappan,   b. 22 May 1786, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 23 Jul 1865, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 79 years)   3. Lewis Tappan,   b. 23 May 1788, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 21 Jun 1873, Brooklyn, Kings, New York (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F12357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 May 2021

  
  

• Photos

  Benjamin Tappan Sr., by Gilbert Stuart Benjamin Tappan, Sr., by Gilbert Stuart, 1814.

  
  

• Notes

  He was a goldsmith and a storekeeper. According to Tappan-Toppan Genealogy (citation details below), he marched with other volunteers from Northampton to meet the forces of Burgoyne at Saratoga. Benjamin Tappan (1747-1831) = Sarah Homes (1748-1826) Sarah Tappan (1771-1852) = Solomon Stoddard (1771-1860) Lewis Tappan Stoddard (1807-1865) = Sarah Hill Lathrop (1819-1863) John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931) = Mary Hammond Brown (1857-1930) (Theodore) Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950), eugenicist, white supremacist, and "scientific" racist (Lampooned as "Goddard", author of The Rise of the Colored Empires, in The Great Gatsby)

  
  

• Sources

  [S2651] Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan: Taken in Part from the Home Missionary Magazine, of November, 1828, and Printed for Distribution Among Her Descendants by Sarah Homes Tappan. New York: West & Trow, 1834. [S2589] Find a Grave page for Benjamin Tappan. [S2657] Genealogy of the Family of George Marsh, Who Came from England in 1635 and Settled in Hingham, Mass. by E. J. Marsh. Leominster, Massachusetts: F. N. Boutwell, 1887., date only. [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897. [S2651] Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan: Taken in Part from the Home Missionary Magazine, of November, 1828, and Printed for Distribution Among Her Descendants by Sarah Homes Tappan. New York: West & Trow, 1834., date only. [S4303] Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut by Edward Augustus Bowen. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1897., date only. [S5174] Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, on ancestry.com. [S2651] Memoir of Mrs. Sarah Tappan: Taken in Part from the Home Missionary Magazine, of November, 1828, and Printed for Distribution Among Her Descendants by Sarah Homes Tappan. New York: West & Trow, 1834., year only. [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915., date only.