Abraham Belknap

Abraham Belknap (1589/90-1643), of Salem, Massachusetts, not to be confused with his grandson also named Abraham (1660-about 1728), was born in England.^[1][2][3][4] He was one of the first settlers of New England,^[5] and all living people with the surname Belknap, Belnap, or Beltoft, are thought to be descendants of him and his wife Mary Stallion.^[6][7][8][9]

Coat of Arms of Abraham Belknap

The European branches of families with that surname died out before this Abraham Belknap's immigration to America.^[10] Some of his descendants include: a grandson also named Abraham Belknap (1660-1728)); Samuel Belknap (1627/28-1701),^[11][12][13] Ebenezer Belknap (1667-1701) who married Hannah Ayer, Joseph Belknap^[14] who married Prudence Morris; William Belknap who married Anna Burke; US Army Brigadier General William Goldsworth Belknap; Morris Burke Belknap who married Phoebe Thompson; William Burke Belknap who married Mary Richardson; William Richardson Belknap, Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey, Alice Belknap, Mary Belknap, William Burke Belknap; Christine Belknap; William Humphrey; Alice Humphrey Morgan; Edward Cornelius Humphrey; Lewis Craig Humphrey (the 2nd);Thomas MacGillivray Humphrey; Sally Reed Humphrey; and Edward Porter Humphrey (the 2nd).^[15] Clergyman and historian Jeremy Belknap (1744 – 1798), who was the founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society, mentions Abraham Belknap early in his History of New Hampshire.^[16]

Direct American descendants

Many of the direct descendants of Abraham Belknap settled in or were natives of Louisville, Kentucky. They include Morris Burke Belknap (the elder) (June 25, 1780 -July 26, 1877) an iron foundry worker and founder of Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company; W. B. Belknap also known as William Burke Belknap (the elder) (1811–1889); Morris Burke Belknap (June 7, 1856 – April 13, 1910), also known as Colonel Morris Burke Belknap; William Burke Belknap (1885–1965), the owner of Land O'Goshen Farms; William Richardson Belknap (March 28, 1849 – June 2, 1914); genealogist Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey (1876–1964); Dr. Edward Cornelius Humphrey, a World War II United States Army Major in the Medical Corps, stationed in the Ardennes; and economist Thomas M. Humphrey.^[17]

References

1. "Descendants of Abraham Belknap". www.jafath.com. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
2. Moffat, Roger. "Abraham Belknap b. 4 June 1660 Salem, MA d. about 1728 Framingham, MA: WMGS Online Trees". trees.wmgs.org.
3. Moffat, Roger. "Abraham Belknap b. 4 June 1660 Salem, MA d. about 1728 Framingham, MA: WMGS Online Trees". trees.wmgs.org. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
4. Hippin, Dr.; Lowell, John A.; Dexter, Henry M. (1875). "September Meeting, 1875. Resolutions; Letter from Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby; Papers from Miss Thompson; Memoir of Joseph Barlow Felt; Journal of the Rev. John Pike". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 14: 103–152. JSTOR 25079493.
5. "History of Salem". salem.lib.virginia.edu. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
6. "DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM BELKNAP". hackerscreek.com. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
7. "Belnap Family". belnapfamily.org. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
8. "Ancestors of the Society". www.nssdp.com. National Society of the Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
9. Threlfall, John Brooks (1992). Fifty great migration colonists to New England & their origins. Bowie, MD.: Heritage Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1556136856.
10. "BELKNAP FAMILY ORGANIZATION: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
11. Perley, Sidney (1904). "Abraham+Belknap"&pg=PA142 The Essex Antiquarian. Essex Antiquarian. p. 142. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
12. Perley, Sidney (1904). "The Essex Antiquarian". Essex Antiquarian. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
13. "Abraham Belknap f/k/a Beltoft (chr. 1589/1590-1643)". wp.belnapfamily.org. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
14. "DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM BELKNAP". hackerscreek.com. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
15. Humphrey, Eleanor Belknap. "Pedigree of Eleanor Belknap". Library of Virginia. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
16. Marcou, Jane Belknap (1847). Life of Jeremy Belknap, D. D.: The Historian of New Hampshire. With Selections from His Correspondence and Other Writings. Harper. p. 9. Retrieved 16 October 2017. Abraham Belknap.
17. John Kleber, ed. (2001). The encyclopedia of Louisville. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. p. 81. ISBN 0-8131-2100-0. Belknap, Morris Burke (b. Louisville, June 7, 1856;d Louisville, April 13, 1910) Businessman, soldier, and civic leader. The youngest child of William Burke Belknap and Mary (Richardson) Belknap, he grew up in the family residence on Walnut St. (now Muhammad Ali Blvd.). He entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1874 . . . .