When William Knapp was born on 26 September 1806, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Purdy Knapp, was 49 and his mother, Eunice Wilcox, was 40. He married Esther Harding on 12 December 1832. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Salem, Salem Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 11 November 1876, at the age of 70, and was buried in Hamlin Cemetery, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries: 1808: Salem Township, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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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