John Sapp (ref #21 in "History of the Sapp Family, by J Gooden Sapp & W H Stanley) was born about 1737. That was the year his father, who I think is Daniel Zab, landed in Philadelphia on the ship Andrew Galley and signed the Oath of Allegiance. John farmed in Baltimore County, in a tax district called Pipe Creek Hundred, where he lived in 1773. He may be the John Sapp who took the Oath of Allegiance at Annapolis in 1776. John probably took to hunting and gathering ginseng root from a cabin on the Ohio near present Wierton W.Va.. He moved his family to Kentucky in about 1787. He is on the tax list there in Madison Co in 1787, with 2 boys 16-21, 2 horses and 12 cattle. I wonder how he got the cattle to his new land at Otter Creek, near Daniel Boone's fort on the Kentucky River. There, his 9th child Hartley was born in 1787. His children were: Margaret, b 1764/1767, d 1806/1808, m Richard West, Sr George (Kentucky George), b abt 1766, d 1853, m Margaret Logsdon John, b abt 1767, d 1833, m Isabella Gray Frederick R, b abt 1770, d 1836, m Hester Morgan Mary, b abt 1771, d ?, m Richard Prior Patience, b 1774/1779, d bef 1804, m Jonathan West Edward, b abt 1775, d 1843, m Elizabeth Seaton Nancy, b abt 1775, d abt 1805, unmarried Hartley, b 1787, d 1840, m Polly Wilson They farmed there, John, John Jr., "Kentucky George", and Frederick, until about 1795, then moved north to Pendleton County, near the Ohio River. Pioneers were beginning to move into Ohio, and the Sapps were poised to join them. John Sr. died in Kentucky in 1803, about the time his sons bought land across the river in Clermont County, Ohio. John Jr., Frederick, and Edward moved there in about 1802, when there were only about 600 men in the county. GG Sapp