Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameEzra KNAPP 
[3660, p 443]
[3660, p 443]Birth1784, New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts [3667, state only], [3671]
Birth1787 [5239, p 1]
Death30 Mar 1858, Lafayette, Onondaga, New York [3671] Age: 74
BurialLafayette (Pompey West Hill), Lafayette, Onondaga, New York [3671], [4333, p 4]
FatherAlexander KNAPP (1744-1797)
MotherMary KNAPP (1744->1797)
Individual Notes
• But later and for the rest of their lives they had the farm of his [Charles Wellington Hoyt] grandfather Ezra Knapp. Ezra is one of my favorite characters and I include quotes from my town history (1975) and church history (2003). [5177, p 2]
• The following are the first pew owners who purchased their pews at the auction of February, 1821:
...Isaac Hall, Epenetus Hoyt, Ezekiel Hoyt, Lewis Hoyt, Noah Hoyt, Philander Hoyt, Samuel Hoyt, Ezra Knapp... [5179, p 13]
• [He] married the eldest daughter of General Isaac Hall and opened a tavern at Pompey West Hill in 1812. Later he moved south of the four corners about one and a half miles.
Ezra was partial to cider and one winter’s evening he took his wife’s china pitcher and started down cellar to draw himself some from the barrel. As the cellar way was rather dark he tripped and fell part way down. His wife came to the head of the stairs and called to him, “Ezra, is the pitcher broken?” To which he replied, “No, but here goes the damned thing,” and he crashed it on the cellar floor feeling that she prized the pitcher more than him. [5179, p 57]
• The following are the first pew owners who purchased their pews at the auction of February, 1821:
...Isaac Hall, Epenetus Hoyt, Ezekiel Hoyt, Lewis Hoyt, Noah Hoyt, Philander Hoyt, Samuel Hoyt, Ezra Knapp... [5179, p 13]
• [He] married the eldest daughter of General Isaac Hall and opened a tavern at Pompey West Hill in 1812. Later he moved south of the four corners about one and a half miles.
Ezra was partial to cider and one winter’s evening he took his wife’s china pitcher and started down cellar to draw himself some from the barrel. As the cellar way was rather dark he tripped and fell part way down. His wife came to the head of the stairs and called to him, “Ezra, is the pitcher broken?” To which he replied, “No, but here goes the damned thing,” and he crashed it on the cellar floor feeling that she prized the pitcher more than him. [5179, p 57]
Census
• 1850 Census: LaFayette, Onondaga, New York. Age 64, b MA. Farmer. [4319]
Spouses
Birth27 Apr 1786, Massachusetts [3667, place only], [825, p 2; date only]
Death10 Apr 1860 [4320, p 1] Age: 73
Death1863 [5239, p 1] Age: 76
BurialLafayette (Pompey West Hill), Lafayette, Onondaga, New York [4333, p 4]
NicknamePolly [4319], [5239, p 1]
FatherGen. Isaac HALL (1764-1830)
MotherVashti JOHNSON (1766-1813)
Individual Notes
• The eldest child of General Isaac Hall. [5177, p 1]
Census
• 1850 Census: LaFayette, Onondaga, New York. Age 62, b MA. [4319]
Research
• In the 1850 Census, a Fidelia Hall, age 29, b NY, is enumerated with Ezra and Mary; is she Mary’s niece? [4319]
Marriage1804, Lafayette, Onondaga, New York [3660, p 443; marriage only], [5239, p 1]
Marr Memothen Pompey