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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Petersham, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1904)
p. 35.
KNAP, Lucy, d. Benjamin and Lucy, [born] Oct. 15, 1777.
KNAPP, Lucy, d. Benjamin and Lucy, [born] Oct. --, 1777.
- ↑ Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
[1].
Deaths Registered in the Town of Northfield for the Year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
No.: 8
Date of Death: March 13 [1869]
Name: Lucy Morse
Color: W
Condition: Widow
Age: 90 y. 5 m. [birth about Oct 1778]
Cause: Old Age
Place of Death: Northfield
Occupation: [blank]
Place of Birth: Petersham
Parents: [blank] Knapp
Birthplaces of Parents: [blank]
- ↑ Identification of Lucy as the daughter of Benjamin is based on the birth place and age at death listed in the death record. There are some alternate theories, none of which is significantly substantiated.
The age at death is just about exactly one year off from what would be calculated from the birth record of Benjamin's daughter, a common discrepancy. Of the recorded birth of Lucy Knapps in Petersham, this is the best match by 4 years. Benjamin drowned in 1783, his estate included no real estate or dower, and the small amount of money was given to the widow, so no listing of heirs. The mother remarried to Ebenezer Bancroft of Warwick, thus aligning with the marriage record saying Lucy is of Warwick.
Source:Knapp, Arthur Mason. Knapp Family in America, p. 25, and Source:Knapp, Oswald Greenwaye. History of the Chief English Families Bearing the Name of Knapp, p. 196, both (probably one copying the other) show Lucy "m. --- Peckham" without explanation or further details. There are several Lucy Peckhams but none that can be identified as Benjamin's daughter (w. of Jotham in Dana, b. 1787, mother named Lucy Wheeler, but death record says maiden name Oakman or Oatman from Vermont, another in same town b. 1777, death records shows maiden name Vaughan from Middleborough, administrator of Benjamin's estate is Robert Peckham but clearly not a son-in law). Clearly since she was 6 when her father died, nothing in the probate provided this identification, nor was there any land for heirs to sell, the lack of a given name says this is not based on an actual marriage record, not has one been found, nor birth of children, nor death record. This appears to be a guess, and without some kind of evidence, mistaken.
Source:Temple, Josiah Howard. History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, for 150 Years, p. 502, names Artemas's wife as Lucretia ---, despite the actual family register giving her name as Lucy, and the marriage record and the death record which do the same.
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