When Lebbeus Knapp was born on 21 June 1745, in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Nehemiah Knapp, was 30 and his mother, Abigail Ferris, was 44. He married Rachel Storms in 1777, in Haverstraw, Rockland, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 14 March 1835, in Stony Point, Rockland, New York, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Rockland, New York, United States.
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Date of Statehood: February 6, 1788, the fifth State
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German: occupational or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant, apprentice’, and ‘miner’. This surname is also found elsewhere in central Europe, e.g. in Czechia and Slovakia, where it is more commonly spelled Knap (compare 3 below).
German: in Franconia, a nickname for a dexterous or skillful person, of the same ultimate origin as 1 above.
Germanized or Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Slovak, Rusyn, and Slovenian Knap , a surname of ultimately German origin (see 1 above).
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