Moses Knapp

1736 - 1821  (85 years)

• Name	Moses Knapp
  Birth	5 Jun 1736	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1788	Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut   [3]
  Death	10 Oct 1821	Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut   [5]
  Alternate death	11 Oct 1821  [3]
  Alternate death	15 Oct 1821  [3, 6]
  Burial	Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Lichtfield, Connecticut   [5]
  Person ID	I11048	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Moses Knapp,   b. 6 Aug 1709, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 9 Jun 1787, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Jemima Mead,   b. Abt 1708, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut d. Bef 1766, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1731  [1, 4, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F2434	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Kasson,   b. 3 Sep 1741, Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut d. 30 Aug 1815, Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	8 Sep 1760  [3, 6, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Calvin Knapp,   b. 18 Apr 1770, Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut d. 19 Dec 1823, Cattaraugus, New York (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F83	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Feb 2024

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• Sources

  [S648] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913. [S397] History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania from A.D. 1180 to 1900 by Spencer P. Mead. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901., date only. [S664] Nicholas Knapp Genealogy by Alfred Averill Knapp. Winter Park, Florida: 1953. [S666] Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families by the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington. Stamford, Connecticut: 6 Apr 1797. [S7399] Find a Grave page for Moses Knapp. [S667] Genealogy of a Part of the Kasson Family in the United States and Ireland by George M. Kasson. Woodbury, Connecticut: Arthur E. Knox, 1882. [S397] History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania from A.D. 1180 to 1900 by Spencer P. Mead. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008. [S7398] Find a Grave page for Margaret Kasson Knapp., year only.