Brief Life History of Paul
When Paul Knapper was born about 1746, in Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Johann Conrad Knepper, was 38 and his mother, Anna Catharina Bernhard, was 37. He married Margaretha Hollebusch on 2 November 1775, in Goshenhoppen, Berks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He died on 14 September 1797, in Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 52.
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- Paul Knapper in Abstract of Book 1 & Book A, probate record 1791-1826, Hamilton County, Ohio
- Charles R. Barker, Pennsylvania: Something about wills and Philadelphia will
- Pennsylvania German Church Records Volume III
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1775
"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English knap(p)er(e), an agent derivative of knap(pe) ‘knob, hillock’, for someone who lived by a hilltop or hillock; compare Knapp .
German (also Knäpper): habitational name for someone from either of two places in Westphalia named Knapp.
German (Knäpper): unflattering nickname from an agent derivative of knappen ‘to be stingy’ or, in some places, ‘to grab or snatch’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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