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There is a lot of history regarding this family in the Staten Island, New York area as well as Pennsylvania Pioneers
Capt. Christopher Billopp, Royal Navy Officer
- Capt. Christopher Billopp, Royal Navy Officer MP
- Gender: Male
- Birth: 1650 - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Death: 1724 (73-74) - Fleet Prison, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom (Died at Fleet Prison)
- Place of Burial: St Nicholas, Deptford, Greenwich, Kent, , England (United Kingdom)
- Captain Christopher Billopp married, as his second wife, his daughter Ann's mother-in-law, First wife possibly Ann Farmar, daughter of William Farmar (Farmer)
Christopher Billopp (Royal Navy officer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Billopp_(Royal_Navy_officer)
Christopher Billopp or Billop (c. 1650 - 1724 was an English officer of the Royal Navy in the seventeenth century who commanded various ships of the line, including HMS Greenwich in the Battle of Bantry Bay. He is noted as part of the "Staten Island Legend", a likely apocryphal story that describes Billopp's circumnavigation of Staten Island in a sailing race to claim it for New York. Though the legend has survived in oral tradition and popular culture since at least the 19th century, there is no concrete evidence that such a race actually occurred.
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