Timothy Knapp

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ye_Historie_of_Ye_Town_of_Gree... Citation Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, with Genealogical Notes on the Adams ... By Spencer P. Mead · 1911 Publisher: Knickerbocker Press

Biography
Timothy was born about 1733 to Israel Knapp and Mary Lyon in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony.

In 1751, Timothy married Ruth Close. They had at least seven children:

Maria Knapp (1751– )
Mary Knapp (1752–1840)
Thomas Knapp (1754–1777)
Matthew Knapp (1756– )
Ruth Knapp (1757–1831)
Timothy Knapp (1759–1777)
Israel F. Knapp (1763-1833)
Elizabeth 'Betsey' Knapp (1765–1847)
Connecticut, Town Marriage Records:

Name Timothy Knapp
Marriage Date 14 Sep 1751, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Spouse Ruth Close
Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, by Spencer P. Mead, 1911, page 172-176 [1]

Putnam Cottage…during the Revolutionary War was owned by Captain Israel Knapp, and kept as a tavern by him. He had two sons, Timothy and Israel; and five daughters, Mary, who married Stephen Mead, a Revolutionary soldier; Elizabeth, never married; Hannah who married Abraham Husted, a Revolutionary soldier; Amy who died young; and Amy, who married Captain Jabez Fitch....

Captain Israel Knapp...was admitted to probate at Stamford on the twenty-eighth day of August, 1783, and by it he gave the bulk of his estate, which he remained in undisturbed possession of during the Revolutionary War, to his son Israel. There was, however, something the matter with his son Timothy, who was baptized as an adult on the seventeenth day of September, 1761, at Saint John's Episcopal Church at Stamford, because when his father, Captain Israel Knapp, drew his will on the seventh day of June, 1777, he cut Timothy off with only a life estate in a farm of forty acres, for him and his wife Ruth, and after their death to their children; after making bequests to his widow and his other children, he devised all the rest, residue, and remainder of his estate to his son Israel. The farm left to Timothy and his wife during their lives was located on the westerly side of the Round Hill Road near the Howe Monument at Pecksland.

It is, therefore, evident that Timothy Knapp, who married Ruth, daughter of Thomas Close and Hannah Lyon, on the fourteenth day of September, 1757, by whom he had Mary, Thomas, Matthew, Ruth, Timothy, Israel, and Elizabeth, and his family were the tories, and the following incident related of his son Timothy, a lad of eighteen in 1777, corroborates this statement.

Timothy had been paying his attentions with a view to marrying a daughter of Mr. Titus Mead, then living in an old house near the corner of Mead Avenue and North Street, and on her refusing his hand, he proudly told her that she should yet speak to him, and he would in turn take no notice of her. This threat was verified in a more terrible way than he intended. Horses were the most valuable booty that the refugees could lay their hands on, and knowing that Mr. Mead kept a fine horse, which he every night led up the oaken stairs to his garret, Knapp with two of his brothers went to the house to take it. Mr. Mead had knowledge of their approach and stationed a man who was with him at a back window upstairs. It was at dusk, and when the three men had come to the door-step, after some words, Mr. Mead fired, the ball passing through the door and entering the heart of Timothy Knapp. Without waiting to see the result of the shot, his brothers ran off in an easterly direction; and at the same time the man stationed at the back window sprang out and ran with all his might. The remaining refugees, seeing him, and supposing it to be their brother, called out, “Run, Tim, run,” which made him run the faster. At last, the daughter, opening the door and seeing Timothy lying there, asked him if he were badly hurt, but he made no answer, and it was found that he was dead. She had spoken to him, and he had taken no notice of her. On finding that he was dead, word was sent to his family that his body was lying as it fell on the door-step. They paid no attention to the messenger, and after the body had lain there for a considerable length of time, Mr. Mead buried it in a lot belonging to the Knapps, in a pair of bars, where they must have driven over it in going in and out. Afterwards the family took up the body and buried it close by the house where he was shot, and his bones still rest there.

1800 US Federal Census in Greenwich, Connecticut:

Timothy Knapp is head of household
1 free white male 45 and over [Timothy about 67]
1 free white female 45 and over [Ruth 65]
Sources
1751 Connecticut, Town Marriage Records [2]
1800 US Federal Census in Greenwich, Connecticut [3]
"New York families descended from the immigrant Thomas Lyon, of Rye, with introductory chapter by Dr. G.W.A. Lyon on the English Lyon families", by Robert B. Lyon, Miller, 1907, pgs. 58, 311

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