For more references to BELKNAP, please see the BRUNDAGE document at www.perry.streeter.com from which the following excerpt was extracted. Corrections and additions will be greatly appreciated! Perry ([email protected]) Jonathan [Belknap was the] son of Thomas... Thomas, Benjamin and Samuel Belknap were the first generation of the Belknaps who came here from Massachusetts... The early historians say that Thomas and Benjamin settled in New Windsor but they do not tell us where. As Thomas bought thirteen lots of the Baird patent from his brother Samuel and lived there, that places him in [the] town of Newburgh. But his children Thomas, Sarah, Joseph and John lived in New Windsor, that is, in Little Britain, and his son Jonathan did too for a while... Jonathan Belknap's house was north of The Square on Silver Stream Ave. in [the] town of Newburgh. We claim him among the Little Britain Belknaps because his house was just like his cousin Isaac's, and because he lived for a while in New Windsor... Jonathan evidently came to New Windsor to live for at the New Windsor Precinct meeting [in] 1789 it was voted that... a committee for superintending the building a pound at Jonathan Belknap's. His stay was short, for in the first census, 1790, he is listed in [the] town of Newburgh... Jonathan Belknap did not have much property to leave to his family but he made a will April 14, 1817. He divided his money among his children and added "Also my wright [sic] in the New Windsor Meeting House to be divided equally between Sands, Mary, Marcy and granddaughter Mary." (Margaret V.S. Wallace, "'BIG' Little Britain" The Belknaps of the Twin Houses," Orange County Post [17 October 1868], 18)