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Hannah Smith

Female Abt 1640 - Bef 1691  (~ 51 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Hannah Smith was born about 1640; died before 16 Sep 1691 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1642, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut
    • Alternate death: Jun 1685

    Notes:

    The anonymous author of the web page Descendants of Thomas Smith points out that, contrary to many online sources, Hannah Smith Knapp didn't die in June 1685. She is mentioned in her father's will, drawn up 4 Jul 1687, but not in the will of her second husband, Thomas Lawrence, dated 26 Jul 1691 [Nicholas Knapp Genealogy], and therefore presumably died sometime between those dates.

    Hannah married Caleb Knapp before 1661 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Caleb (son of Nicholas Knapp and Elinor) was born on 20 Jan 1637 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died between 2 Dec 1674 and 4 Mar 1675 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Capt. John Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Jul 1664 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 5 Apr 1749 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut.
    2. 3. Moses Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1666 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 16 Apr 1753 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut.
    3. 4. Sarah Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1670 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in 1728 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut.

    Hannah married Thomas Lawrence before 4 Jul 1687. Thomas (son of Thomas Lawrence and Martha) was born on 3 Dec 1648; was christened on 3 Dec 1648 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 16 Aug 1691 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Capt. John Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (1.Hannah1) was born on 25 Jul 1664 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 5 Apr 1749 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Appointed Ensign, May 1707; Lieutenant, Oct 1710; Captain, Oct 1716, by the Connecticut General Assembly. He was a member of the Assembly in 1716.

    Sometime in the early 1890s, while repairing a drain on the estate of a Dr. Trowbridge, workmen discovered a gravestone that was being used as a drain cover, upon which was written "Here lies interred, the body of Capt. John Knapp who departed this life the 5th day of April, 1749, aged 85 years."

    John married Hannah Ferris on 10 Jun 1692 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Peter Ferris and Elizabeth Reynolds) was born in 1666 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Sep 1724 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Moses Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Aug 1709 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 9 Jun 1787 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut.

    John married Martha Mead on 21 Dec 1727 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Martha was born on 11 Dec 1693 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Moses Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (1.Hannah1) was born about 1666 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 16 Apr 1753 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    He was a blacksmith.

    Moses married Elizabeth Crissey on 30 Oct 1689. Elizabeth died after 16 Apr 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Ebenezer Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1706 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 21 Mar 1784 in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Canaan Valley Cemetery, North Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut.

  3. 4.  Sarah Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (1.Hannah1) was born in 1670 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in 1728 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut.

    Sarah married Ebenezer Mead in 1691 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Ebenezer (son of John Mead and Hannah Potter) was born in 1663 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in 1728 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 7. Jemima Mead  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1708 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 1766 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut.


Generation: 3

  1. 5.  Moses Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (2.John2, 1.Hannah1) was born on 6 Aug 1709 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 9 Jun 1787 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 8. Moses Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Jun 1736 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 10 Oct 1821 in Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Lichtfield, Connecticut.

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


  2. 6.  Ebenezer Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (3.Moses2, 1.Hannah1) was born in 1706 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 21 Mar 1784 in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Canaan Valley Cemetery, North Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    Writing in the 1956 Supplement to his 1953 Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (citation details below), Alfred Averill Knapp says: "Ebenezer was married only once and then to Elizabeth Benedict, b. 1706, Danbury, dau. of Thomas Benedict & Elizabeth Hickox or Hickock. After Thomas Benedict died, his widow m. a Samuel Smith. Her children may have taken the name Smith which led to this error. Thomas Benedict was son of Samuel Benedict & Rebecca Andrews. Rebecca Andrews was dau. of Francis Andrews & Anna Smith. Anna Smith was dau. of Giles Smith, of Hartford, Conn."

    Ebenezer married Elizabeth Benedict on 7 Jan 1724. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Benedict and Elizabeth Hickock) was born in 1706 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 11 Feb 1795 in Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Canaan Valley Cemetery, Norfolk, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Rachel Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Jul 1737; died in 1821.

  3. 7.  Jemima Mead Descendancy chart to this point (4.Sarah2, 1.Hannah1) was born about 1708 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 1766 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut.

    Notes:

    New England Families Genealogical and Memorial (citation details below) calls her "Jemima Weed"; this is probably due to the Rev. Elijah B. Huntington's mistranscription in his 6 Apr 1797 Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Stamford Families.

    Although Nicholas Knapp Genealogy doesn't, in its entry for Sarah Knapp, list Jemima among her children with Ebenezer Mead, in its entry for Moses Knapp it calls Jemimah Mead "dau. of Ebenezer Mead and Sarah (Knapp)." Meanwhile, Spencer P. Mead's History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County does in fact list Jemima as a daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah, and records her marriage to Moses Knapp. So Jemima and Moses were first cousins, both grandchildren of Caleb Knapp and Hannah Smith.

    Jemima married Moses Knapp on 25 Nov 1731. Moses (son of Capt. John Knapp and Hannah Ferris) was born on 6 Aug 1709 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 9 Jun 1787 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Moses Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 5 Jun 1736 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 10 Oct 1821 in Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Lichtfield, Connecticut.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Moses Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (5.Moses3, 2.John2, 1.Hannah1) was born on 5 Jun 1736 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 10 Oct 1821 in Bethlehem, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Old Bethlehem Cemetery, Bethlehem, Lichtfield, Connecticut.

    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]

    Children:
    1. 10. Calvin Knapp  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Apr 1770 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut; died on 19 Dec 1823 in Cattaraugus, New York.

  2. 9.  Rachel Knapp Descendancy chart to this point (6.Ebenezer3, 3.Moses2, 1.Hannah1) was born on 27 Jul 1737; died in 1821.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 20 Jun 1744

    Family/Spouse: Jacob Spaulding. Jacob (son of Isaac Spaulding and Elizabeth Haynes) was born on 17 Dec 1732; died on 30 Apr 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. Daniel Spaulding  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1758; died in 1813.


 

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