Second Annual Phillips/Knapp Family Association Reunion The Second Annual Phillips/Knapp Family Association Reunion will be held the weekend of September 9-10, 2006, in Rockland County. All persons descended from a Rockland County Phillips and/or Knapp are invited to attend. Most of our members are descended from Daniel, Eli, or Gilbert Phillips, the three sons of John Phillips and Sarah Knapp, or from Lebbeus Knapp and Rachael Storms. Daniel, Eli, Gilbert and Lebbeus were all patriots who served their new country in the Revolutionary War. Lebbeus is reputed to have had three brothers, Silas, Jonas, and Jared Knapp who also settled in Rockland County and have descendants. All are reported to have come to Rockland County from Horseneck (Greenwich), Connecticut. In an effort to locate more Phillips/Knapp descendants, we have established a website. It can be perused at www.tribalpages.com/tribes/phillipsknapp/ This site is still in the building stages; more names are being added every day. Anyone with information regarding a Phillips or Knapp family line not represented is asked to e-mail the reunion chairperson, Barbara de Mare (an Eli Phillips descendant) at BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com She can tell you if your line is missing solely because of the time restraints in adding names, or due to lack of information. Please put Phillips/Knapp in the subject box. Descent is all that is required to join our group; present surname is not important. Neither is it necessary to present proof of descent. We are a group who gathers for fellowship and community betterment; credentials are not checked! Last year the group with the help of the Town of Haverstraw, the SAR and the DAR restored and rededicated the old and abandoned Phillips/Knapp Cemetery on Birch Drive in Thiells where many of our forebears are buried. The project for this year is still under discussion. The reunion weekend will commence with a barbeque to which attendees are invited to bring a dish to pass. Hotdogs and hamburgers will be provided. There will be a pavilion in which family members may display their family trees, memorabilia, pictures, and anything else they wish to bring. Nothing is required except your presence. Come to the reunion and meet many cousins you never knew you had! For more information contact either the reunion chairperson Barbara de Mare at the address given above or Vicki Miller, membership chairperson, at avmofm@aol.com For those who prefer snail mail, write to Barbara de Mare at Harwood Lloyd, 130 Main Street, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601. We will be sending out more information in mid-July. Remember, we need your name and address (snail mail or e-mail) to send you information! Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. Historian, genealogist and attorney Harwood Lloyd, LLC 130 Main Street Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 (201) 359-3633 office BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com (home)