Person:Robert Thrap (1)

From "The Robert Thrap Family: Four Generations" by Mary Lou Treece (Clegg) 1997, all data on this Thrap family is repeated here and on file at the Allen Co., IN Library ( I obtained a copy from her in person 21 July 2000 at that library where she is employed (also her husband Matthew Clegg employed there). Most of the Thrap families were Methodists; several descendants were Methodist ministers: John Wesley Thrap, Francis Asbury Thrap , and William McKendree Thrapp are noted in Methodist history. I consider her data to be well documented, so I have not replicated that documentation. A story shared by Mary Lou describes how Robert Tharp' mother died young and his father left him with friends as he returned to England (never to return). Those people had him christened in the Episcopal Church of England and let him run with their slaves who taught him to trap expertly, hence they nicknamed him Robert Trapp, and so he was well known while in Baltimore Co., Maryland. When he married and settled near Morgantown, WV. In late 1804 his son, Joseph travelled to Licking Creek 11 miles North of Zanesville where he obtained a small property and sent for his family (who arrived spring 1805). Somewhere in those moves, his name changed to Thrapp, no matter what (or why) it was origionally. Aug. 2001 email from Mary Lou stated that Robert Thrap was buried on the Wm. Thrap farm, Muskingum Twp., Muskingum Co., OH. and that he lived at Monongalia Co., VA from 1792-1805. A report from William Rose (Ancestry.com World Tree Project: [email protected]) states that this Robert Thrap has all the same data, except that he was born 1728 at Joppa, Hartford Co. or Baltimore Co., MD. In "First Families of Muskingum County, OH (ACPL GS 977.101.m97ff), pg 16 is listed Robert Thrap 1808, Harriett Thrap 1812, Joseph Thrap1813, James E. Thrap 1822,All from MD

1. ↑ Newcomer, James H. Thrapp, Robert family group sheet 5, Feb. 1991.