The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Knapp · ◉ direct ancestor

⚔ Military service

♂Joseph Knapp

Born 1740, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Died 1811, Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.

Joseph Knapp (c. 1740 – 16 October 1811) was a man of Norton and Easton, in Bristol County, Massachusetts, who served as a private in the first year of the Revolutionary War and died at Leeds, in the District of Maine. He was the fifth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Joseph Knapp (1763–1839).

Marriage and family

On 28 August 1760, at Bridgewater, Plymouth County, he married Susanna Packard (born 1736). The town’s printed marriage record names him “Joseph of Norton”. Their son Joseph was born at Bridgewater on 9 June 1763, and the town register enters him under the heading “The Birth of the Children of Joseph & Susanna Knap”. A compiled chart of Susanna’s descent lists four more children of the couple, born at Bridgewater between 1767 and 1775; they rest on that chart alone.

Because his son bore the same name, the records call the son Joseph Jr. and the father Joseph Sr. When the son died in 1839, the town’s record of his death named his father as “Joseph Knapp Sr.” and described him as “of Easton, Mass.”

The Revolution

The published record of Massachusetts soldiers and sailors lists “Knap, Joseph”, of Bridgewater, as a private in Captain Daniel Lothrop’s company of Colonel John Bailey’s regiment, enlisted on 3 May 1775 and serving three months and six days, and at Roxbury in October 1775, when the American lines there faced British-held Boston during the siege of Boston. The marker at his grave gives the same unit: “Pvt. Lothrop’s Co | Bailey’s Regt.”

Death and burial

His son had moved to the District of Maine by 1792, living at Livermore, in the part later known as Leeds, and Joseph Sr. also came to Leeds. No record says when. He died there on 16 October 1811; the 1953 Knapp genealogy gives his age as 74. He was buried in the Knapp or Dead River burial ground, about a quarter of a mile west of North Leeds, where a cemetery survey of 1979 recorded him as “Joseph, Sr., father, died 10/16/1811”. His son was later buried in the same ground. Whether Susanna went with him to Maine is not known.

In November 1942 his fourth great-grandson Kenneth Blanchard filed a supplemental application on him to the Sons of the American Revolution, following his application on Joseph Jr.

Notes

Lineage-society records divide the Revolutionary service between father and son inconsistently. The Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book and the 1965 application give him service in Captain Amasa Soper’s and Captain Seth Pratt’s companies, which the printed state record assigns to “Joseph Knap, Jr., of Bridgewater”; the 1953 Knapp genealogy does the same. The Sons of the American Revolution’s patriot record also gives him a corporal’s service in 1777 under Captain Moses French, an entry that names no town, and gives his birth as 9 June 1740, which is his son’s birthday. One compiled chart places his death at Norton, Massachusetts; the Leeds cemetery record and the Knapp genealogy both place it at Leeds.

Early life

His parents are not known. Two lineage-society records of the twentieth century, a Daughters of the American Revolution lineage book and a 1965 Sons of the American Revolution application, give his birth as 7 August 1740 at Taunton, Massachusetts. A Knapp family genealogy published in 1953 gives no day, only “1740 Scituate, (or Taunton)”, adding “or 1737”. The printed vital records of Taunton contain no birth of a Joseph Knapp, and no record naming his parents has been found.

Family time line

◉ Joseph Knapp 1740–1811 ⚔
◉ Susanna Packard 1736–
Married 28 Aug 1760, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Bridgewater, Massachusetts Bay Colony
◉ Joseph Knapp Jr. 1763–1839 ⚔
○ Matilda Knapp 1767–1834
○ Ziba Knapp 1769–
○ Elijah Knapp 1772–
○ Rhoda Knapp 1775–1850

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 7 Aug 1740 Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America on record
Military service
Private, Capt. Daniel Lothrop's co., Col. John Bailey's regt.; enlisted 3 May 1775, 3 mos 6 days; at Roxbury Oct 1775 (entered as 'Knap, Joseph, Bridgewater'; matches his gravestone 'Pvt. Lothrop's Co, Bailey's Regt.')
 3 May 1775 on record
Death 16 Oct 1811 Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine, United States on record
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Sources

  • Sons of the American Revolution membership application no. 93352 (1965) - Joseph Knapp of Taunton and Leeds, Maine — Birth, Death, about this person, Marriage (Susanna Packard)
  • DAR Lineage Book, p.114 - Joseph Knapp (1740-1811) and Joseph Knapp Jr. (1763-1839) — Birth, Death, about this person
  • Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston: Wright & Potter, 1896-1908), vol. IX — Military service
  • Maine Old Cemetery Association (MOCA) cemetery record form, 1979 - Dead River / Knapp Cemetery, North Leeds — Death, about this person
  • Maine Form R-3, 'Copy of an Old Record of a Death', New Portland - Joseph Knapp Jr. — about this person
  • Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records - Bridgewater births, p.387: 'The Birth of the Children of Joseph & Susanna Knap' — about this person
  • Vital Records of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, 1911), BIRTHS p.82: NAP/NAPP, children of Joseph baptized by the West Parish church (C.R.1) 1764-1775 (archive.org vitalrecordsofwe1911newe) — about this person
  • Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 - Marriages, p.225 — Marriage (Susanna Packard)
  • Vital Records of East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 - Marriages, p.245 — Marriage (Susanna Packard)

Borders as they stood about 1763 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Joseph Knapp Jr. 1763–1839 ⚔
    1. Simeon Knapp 1784– ⚭
      1. John Lindsey Knapp 1805–1839
        1. James C. Knapp 1836–1892
        2. Owen Knapp 1837–
        3. John L Knapp 1838–1899
      2. Levi Foss Knapp 1807–1872
        1. Emeline S Knapp 1833–1870
        2. Caroline Knapp 1836–1889
        3. Levi L Knapp 1838–
        4. Louisa L Knapp 1840–1887
        5. Lovisa H Knapp 1840–
        6. Charlotte S Knapp 1843–1914
        7. Mary J Knapp 1845–1919
        8. Manley Knapp 1848–1911
        9. Ruth S Knapp 1852–
        10. Nelson B Knapp 1854–1924
      3. William Lindsay Knapp 1809–1893
        1. Charles Bingley Knapp 1837–1893
        2. Jerome B Knapp 1841–1900 ⚭
        3. Frances Ellen Knapp 1847–1918
      4. Irena Dudley Knapp 1811–1851
        1. Lucy Lindsey Hutchins 1828–1861
        2. Elmira Hutchins 1830–1918
        3. Eunice Wade Hutchins 1831–1874
        4. Elias Hutchins 1833–1918
        5. Hannah Lindsey Hutchins 1835–1921
        6. Christopher Columbus Hutchins 1836–1925
        7. Eli Hutchins 1838–1887
        8. Enos Hutchins 1841–1864
        9. William Melvin Hutchins 1844–1862
        10. Mark Lisherness Hutchins 1845–1923
        11. Rena May Hutchins 1851–1940
      5. Statira Velma Knapp 1815–1847
        1. Cheston Bromley Hutchins 1834–1913
        2. John M Hutchins 1838–1903
        3. Hiram Hill Hutchins 1840–1931
        4. Elwin M Hutchins 1842–1905
        5. Oscar F Hutchins 1844–1862
      6. Charles Knapp 1818–
      7. Rachel Spear Knapp 1819–
      8. Mary S Knapp 1825–
      9. Simeon C. Knapp 1827–1909
        1. Frederick Barnard Knapp 1855–1917
        2. Willis Hiram Knapp 1856–1941
        3. Walter C. Knapp 1858–1930
        4. Carroll Sumner Knapp 1859–1934
        5. Minnie Jane Knapp 1861–1928
        6. Adelbert Knapp 1869–1876 ✧
      10. Owen Knapp 1829–1888
        1. Elvira Estelle Knapp 1865–1941
        2. John F. Knapp 1867–
      11. Lucy Jane Knapp 1832–1914
        1. Laura J Lander 1860–1954
        2. William Herbert Lander 1863–1943
    2. Bathsheba Knapp 1786–1818
    3. Joseph Knapp 1790–
      1. Asa Knapp 1812–
      2. Elvira Cushman Knapp 1813–1877
        1. George Bates Mitchell 1841–1900
        2. Joseph Knapp Mitchell 1842–1920
        3. James Warren Mitchell 1846–1919
        4. Charles Henry Mitchell 1847–1909
        5. Clara Ellen Mitchell 1850–1940
      3. Olive C. Knapp 1815–
        1. Almira Jane Sumner 1841–1885
        2. Mary Ellen Sumner 1843–
        3. Lucille LaRoy Sumner 1847–1849 ✧
        4. Ezra Ramsdell Sumner 1850–1873
        5. Oleva Estella Sumner 1856–
      4. Lucy Knapp 1816–
      5. Ruth Knapp 1818–1883
        1. Albion P. Knapp 1846–1918
        2. Lucinda B. Knapp 1848–
        3. Josephine Knapp 1849–1937
        4. Annette M Knapp 1851–1906
        5. Della Knapp 1860–
        6. Edwin Knapp 1863–
      6. Esther Knapp 1820–1903
      7. Jane P. Knapp 1822–1917
        1. Mary E. Mitchell 1856/1863–
      8. Andrew Knapp 1824–
      9. Rufus Knapp 1825–
      10. Cyrus B. Knapp 1827–
      11. Frank Knapp bef 1832–
    4. John Knapp 1792–1878
      1. Eunice Carver Knapp 1812–1854
      2. Samuel Perry Knapp 1814–1868
      3. Paul Wing Knapp 1816–1855
      4. Leonard Shaw Knapp 1817–1897
      5. Patience Knapp 1819–1852
      6. Benjamin Franklin Eastman Knapp 1822–1885
      7. Martha Knapp 1824–1901
        1. Martha Cole 1843–
        2. Louisa Cole 1844–1847 ✧
        3. Eliza Cole 1849–1856 ✧
        4. Charles A Cole 1850–1911
        5. Ruel Thomas Cole 1854–1937
        6. Eunice Ellen Cole 1856–1941
      8. John Knapp 1826–1854
      9. Joseph Knapp 1828–1829 ✧
      10. Sophia Bathsheba Knapp 1830–1858
      11. Joseph Wing Knapp 1832–1903
      12. Philo Knapp 1834–1907
      13. Converse Lyndall Knapp 1837–1911 ⚭
        1. Philo Perry Knapp 1857–1903
        2. Infant Knapp 1860–
        3. Orton R Knapp 1861–1930
        4. Orrison A Knapp 1863–1930
        5. Luna E Knapp 1865–1903
        6. Myrtle B Knapp 1867–1901
        7. Dora M Knapp 1870–1919
        8. Esther E Knapp 1871–1930
        9. Infant Knapp 1874–
        10. Amelia A Knapp 1875–1932
        11. Harry Converse Knapp 1877–1945
        12. Maud Nancy Knapp 1879–
        13. William Moore Knapp 1882–1948
    5. Elijah Knapp 1794–
      1. Horace Knapp 1819–1886
      2. Alonzo Knapp 1821–1886
        1. Albion P. Knapp 1846–1918
        2. Lucinda B. Knapp 1848–
        3. Josephine Knapp 1849–1937
        4. Annette M Knapp 1851–1906
        5. Della Knapp 1860–
        6. Edwin Knapp 1863–
      3. Hester Ann Knapp 1824–1910
      4. Albion P Knapp 1826–1848
      5. Ellen Knapp 1829–1854
      6. Russell Knapp 1831–1832 ✧
      7. Ruth Knapp 1833–1834 ✧
      8. Joel Knapp 1835–1902
      9. Warren Knapp 1837–1838 ✧
      10. Edwin Knapp 1839–
      11. Julia Ann Knapp 1841–1923
      12. Charles Knapp 1844–1845 ✧
    6. Eunice Knapp 1796–1874
      1. Elias Vaughan 1818–1878
        1. William M. Vaughan 1849–
        2. Mary J Vaughan 1851–1900
        3. George Z Vaughan 1851–1932
        4. Thomas L. Vaughan 1854–1863 ✧
        5. Nellie L. Vaughan 1857–1859 ✧
        6. Eunice M Vaughan 1858–1893
        7. D. Webster Vaughan 1860–1863 ✧
        8. Bernard Elias Vaughan 1862–1895
        9. Stella E. Vaughan 1863–
        10. Harriett A. Vaughan 1865–1937
      2. Olive M. Vaughan 1823–
      3. Zenas Vaughan 1830–1908
      4. Atwood Vaughan 1832–
        1. Cora Alice Vaughan 1862–1885
        2. Charles B Vaughan 1864–
        3. Herman Vaughan 1866–
        4. Newell Samuel Vaughan 1868–
        5. Willie O Vaughan 1873–
        6. Atwood Chrissie Vaughan 1877–1959
      5. Eunice K. Vaughan 1834–1892
        1. Lizzie Estelle Simmons 1858–1889
        2. George A Simmons 1866–1918
      6. Huldah V Vaughan 1836–
        1. Edward H. Bradbury 1863–1893
        2. Addie Emma Bradbury 1871–1942
        3. Frank E. Bradbury 1873–1914
      7. Mary B Vaughan 1840–
        1. Alice Cary Putnam 1861–1915 ⚭
        2. Zenas Vaughan Putnam 1863–1947
        3. Newell T. Putnam 1867–
        4. Ernest Lee Putnam 1876–1940
      8. Dexter B Vaughan 1842–
    7. Polly Knapp 1798–1863
      1. Martha L. Blanchard 1818–1893
        1. Leonard Blanchard Bangs 1855–1925 ⚭
      2. Joseph Knapp Blanchard 1820–1885
        1. Adaline Blanchard 1841–1861
        2. Wesley Blanchard 1844–1908 ⚔
        3. Frank Leroy Blanchard 1858–1936
        4. Minnie M. Blanchard 1860–1891
        5. Ida Alice Blanchard 1868–1900
      3. Mary Thair Blanchard 1823–1905
        1. Loren Lewis Brewster 1844–1933
        2. Nancy B. Brewster 1846–1869
        3. Maria Brewster 1847–1918
        4. James Densmore Brewster 1850–1925 ⚭
        5. Melissa Brewster 1852–1853 ✧
        6. Morris B. Brewster 1854–
        7. May P. Brewster 1858–1863 ✧
        8. Myrtle Winfred Brewster 1862–1956
        9. Eugenie Cleona Brewster 1865–1941
        10. Dellila Brewster 1868–1899
      4. Lydia Blanchard 1824–1875
        1. William L. Pottle abt 1848–1872
        2. Manley B. Pottle abt 1851–1917
        3. Addie E. Pottle 1853–1913
        4. Almer W. Pottle 1859–1897
        5. Noah B. Pottle 1861–1891
      5. Noah Blanchard 1826–1896
        1. Leroy W. Blanchard abt 1857–
        2. Amos E. Blanchard abt 1860–
        3. Grant S. Blanchard 1864–1941
      6. Morris Barnes Blanchard 1828–1874
        1. Juliette Blanchard abt 1857–1950
      7. Eunice Knapp Blanchard 1831–1856
      8. Nicholas Hovey Blanchard 1833–1910
        1. Alexander Blanchard 1856–1921
        2. Edgar Hovey Blanchard 1858–1927
        3. William Sherman Blanchard 1866–1908
      9. Leonard Blanchard 1837–1922
        1. Irvin Blanchard abt 1866–
        2. Addie E. Blanchard 1867–1948 ⚭
        3. Emma F. Blanchard 1869–1942
        4. Alice Blanchard 1871–1871 ✧
        5. Frederick Bucknam Blanchard 1875–1958 ⚭
      10. Sarah Hovey Blanchard 1840–1904
        1. Charles Nicholas McDonald 1866–1951
        2. Clarence McDonald 1869–
        3. Willis McDonald 1871–
        4. Henry Temple McDonald 1872–1951
        5. Walter Ross McDonald 1875–1955
      11. Cordelia A. Blanchard abt 1843–1874
    8. Stephen Knapp abt 1800–1892 ⚭
      1. William Gott Knapp 1821–1896
        1. Almer A Knapp 1848–1880
        2. Susan Ellen Knapp 1850–
        3. David Henry Knapp 1853–1912
        4. Mary L Knapp 1856–
        5. Sarah B Knapp 1858–
        6. William Ernest Knapp 1860–1917
        7. Lillian K Knapp 1865–1883
        8. Estella Knapp 1873–
      2. Asa Knapp 1822–1896
        1. Isabelle M Knapp 1851–
        2. Sarah Ella Knapp 1853–1925 ⚭
        3. Harriet E Knapp 1858–1950
        4. Mary Jane Knapp 1862–
      3. Ganselo Knapp 1823–1824 ✧
      4. Mary Jane Knapp 1825–1858
      5. Rossa Ann Knapp 1827–1891
      6. Elizabeth Knapp 1828–1893 ⚭
        1. Charles F Kenney abt 1857–1932
        2. Sarah Abbie Battles 1862–1947
        3. Louise Battles 1863–
        4. James Winslow Battles 1863–1942
      7. Charles Knapp 1829–1883
      8. Earl Knapp 1831–1903
        1. Ellen Knapp 1851–
        2. Richard Berry Knapp 1858–1935 ⚭
        3. Elizabeth Knapp 1862–
        4. Herbert Leslie Knapp 1864–1945
        5. Charles Eddie Knapp 1867–1892
        6. Ina M. Knapp 1870–1970
        7. Margie Knapp 1876–
      9. Lucinda Gott Knapp 1833–1906
        1. Annie L Dascomb 1867– ⚭
        2. Alice M. Dascomb 1869–1943 ⚭
        3. George White Dascomb 1871–1941
      10. Sarah Francis Knapp 1836–1855
      11. Susan Delphina Knapp 1837–1838 ✧
      12. Stephen Decatur Knapp 1839–1921
        1. Frank M. Knapp 1868–1953 ⚭
        2. William Bates Knapp 1870–1930
        3. Charles Roscoe Knapp 1874–1950
        4. Raleigh Decator Knapp 1886–1963
      13. Rhoda Ann Knapp 1841–1895
        1. Willis Roscoe Berry 1860–1940
        2. Charles Ezra Berry 1864–1940
        3. Bertha J Berry 1872–1874 ✧
        4. Fannie Snow Berry 1876–1951
        5. Edith Berry 1879–
    9. Ruth Knapp 1802–
    10. Asa Knapp 1804–1812 ✧
    11. Matilda Knapp 1806–
      1. Loren E Pullen 1831–1911
        1. Ada E. Pullen 1858–1866 ✧
        2. Katherine L Pullen 1859–1906
        3. Loren E Pullen 1865–1912
      2. Catherine Pullen 1833–1916
        1. Eugene L Simmons 1858–
        2. Charles Simmons 1859–
        3. Jerome W Simmons 1860–
        4. Mabel P. Simmons 1866–1931
        5. Abbie W. Simmons 1872–1944
      3. Matilda Knapp Pullen 1835–1907
        1. Charles W. Vose 1861–
        2. Lucretia P. Vose 1862–
        3. Mary Vose 1865–
        4. Ellen P. Vose 1873–1874 ✧
        5. Edgar L Vose 1877–
      4. Lucretia Knapp Pullen 1837–1917
        1. Ada Ellen French 1866–1898
        2. Roxie Bartlett French 1868–1946
        3. Olive H French 1869–
        4. Grace Inez French 1872–1949
        5. Daisy Dean French 1875–1958
        6. Cecil Sumner French 1881–1968
      5. Betsey Peabody Pullen 1838–1910
        1. Hortense Bertena Vose 1863–1882
        2. Gertrude Vose 1865–1886
        3. Apphia Gilbert Vose 1874–1949
      6. Hannah B Pullen 1841–1899
        1. William D. French 1869–1920
        2. Jennie M. French 1871–1920
      7. Stephen K. Pullen 1843–1915
    12. Betsy Knapp 1808–
      1. Ansell Stickney Peabody 1831–1862
      2. Nelson Nathan Peabody 1832–1918
        1. Ella Betsy Peabody 1864–1954
        2. Sylvanus Guy Peabody 1867–1952
      3. Elijah Knapp Peabody 1834–1841 ✧
      4. Charles Knapp Peabody 1836–1837 ✧
      5. Charles Peabody 1838–1880
      6. Noah Blanchard Peabody 1840–1841 ✧
      7. Frank Sewell Peabody 1842–1927
      8. Samuel F Peabody 1843–
      9. John Lennen Peabody 1844–1900
      10. Hiram Vaughn Peabody 1846–1848 ✧
      11. Esther Knapp Peabody 1847–1880
      12. Abner Lander Peabody 1850–1931
    13. Lucretia Howard Knapp 1810–
    14. Charles Knapp
      1. Azel Lindsey Knapp 1811–1844
      2. Simeon Horace Knapp 1812–1823 ✧
      3. Abigail Lindsey Knapp 1814–1884
      4. Calista May Knapp 1816–1872
        1. Betsy Parcher Leadbetter 1839–1854 ✧
        2. Lucius Adelbert Leadbetter 1841–1930
        3. Herbert Ellis Leadbetter 1843–1864
        4. John Roscoe Leadbetter 1846–1890
        5. Horace S. Leadbetter 1848–1919
        6. Mary A. Leadbetter 1851–1854 ✧
        7. Mary E. Leadbetter 1856–1876
        8. Charles Knapp Leadbetter 1857–1926 ⚭
        9. Harris Leadbetter
        10. Lewis A. Leadbetter
      5. Archibald L Knapp 1819–1897
      6. Charles Sewall Knapp 1821–1892
      7. Catherine Knapp 1821–1823 ✧
  2. Matilda Knapp 1767–1834
  3. Ziba Knapp 1769–
  4. Elijah Knapp 1772–
  5. Rhoda Knapp 1775–1850