Would you have any information about a Wilbur D. Belknap born about 1899 who married Opal N. Grigg. she was born in Woodbury, Iowa ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:00 AM Subject: NYORANGE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 6 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. BELKNAP (Perry Streeter) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 21:51:48 -0400 > From: "Perry Streeter" <[email protected]> > Subject: [NYORANGE] BELKNAP > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > 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) > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NYORANGE list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the NYORANGE mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NYORANGE Digest, Vol 1, Issue 6 > ************************************** >