In a message dated 7/24/98 2:35:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: <<Hi, I am looking for what seems to be a needle in a haystack. I don't have a lot of info. I have the name of the person I am looking for, but not a whole lot more. >> Okayyyyy.....Spirit, it's *only* a snippit or two, but I offer it to you anyway....LOL. I recognize the name Darius as a MEAD name, too. (Not sure if it came into the MEAD family through the Knapps, like CALEB or not...but there are several DARIUS listings in the Mead Genealogy, pub 1901, by Spencer P. Mead, LLB.) I see it appear in John Mead, Sr. to Jonathan (b. 1689) and his wife (I don't know her name). They moved from Greenwich, CT to Nine Partners, Dutchess County, NY *after having had *DARIUS* in Greenwich 28 Mar 1728 [Mead H&G, p. 306]--so Darius was named before their move to Dutchess Co., NY). I just checked a book called Settlers of the Beekman Patent: Dutchess County, NY., by Frank J. Doherty [Pleasant Valley, NY: 1990]. There is an Israel KNAPP listed there. Here is what it says.....page 231: (The year would be 1789) "The Supervisor's meeting held the 4th Tuesday in June allowed the following: To Israel KNAPP, for transporting Eleazer Yoemans into Orange County and for procuring assistance and furnishing provisions and paying ferries. 1/16." (From the appearance in the book, I guess this to be 1 pound, 16 shillings- mp)" Was this Israel KNAPP of Greenwich? Or just a man with a similar name? ------------------------ Also, I read that there was a migration out of CT to New Jersey about 1667. Henry LYON was Newark's first *innkeeper* [The LYON Memorial, Families of CT and NJ. Detroit, MI: 1907, p. 58) , and the KNAPP family had some innkeeping experience, too. William Finch, Jr., Historian Emeritus of the Town of Greenwich-- mentioned to me while on a trip there in June of 1994, that "the Mead, Lockwood, Knapp families were in the innkeeping business". (The *Israel* KNAPP Tavern, now known as Putnam Cottage, is the headquarters of a local chapter of the DAR maintains the Inn as a museum--complete with General Putnam's tricorn hat with the bullet hole in the brim.) I'm sorry I can't help you further, but it triggered some thoughts in my mind--and I thought I'd toss it to you. <g> Maureen [email protected]