Northrops

Family Tree
 
Before the founder England
 Joseph Northrup            
1619(1639)-1669 Milford
 Joseph Northrup            
1649 Milford ~ ???1700
 James Northrop              
1693 Milford ~ 1747
 James Northrop              
1719 Ridgefield ~ 1784
 Amos Northrop              
1778? Milford 1855 Warren
 Alvin Northrop                
1803 Ridgefield, Kent, Milford, Salem ~1875 or 86
 George Elmore  Northrop
1844 Cornwall~1906 Southport
 George Ives  Northrop     
1871 Southport ~ 1923 Southport
 Alvin Jennings  Northrop  
1905 Southport/Norwalk ~ 1980 Fairfield

Hannigan

Ives

Jennings

Keeler

Webster (offsite)

This is a work in process and there are still other possible fathers for Amos.

Other Amos Father Possibilities

Kent New Concord Connection

Founding of New Concord

The groundwork for New Concord was laid in 1754, when a group of 43 Connecticut land speculators met with representatives of the Mahican Indian Nation—also known as the Stockbridge Indians, or Mohicans—to purchase "six miles square" of Indian land on the Massachusetts-New York border. Eventually, the land became the northeast quadrant of Columbia County. The purchase price: "250 pounds, New York money." consummated on November 22, 1758.

A decade later, around 1764, John Beebe of Kent, Connecticut, one of the Yankee speculators, led a group of his fellow Yankees to occupy a section of the six-miles-square that was to become the future New Concord. At that time, ownership of the land was claimed by both the heirs of the Dutch patroons and the Yankees, who were regarded as squatters by the patroons. [The disputed titles to the settlers’ lands were not settled by the state legislature until 1788.]

Before 1772, the settlers had no formal government; their only "government" was the Congregational Church, to which the settlers and their leadership belonged. The settlers were largely of Puritan background, with a few of Pilgrim [Massachusetts] heritage. By today’s standards, they would be regarded as religious fundamentalists.

When government came to the area in the form of the King's District of Albany County, New Concord was officially recognized as one of its six subdistricts at the district's first meeting on May 5, 1772. As such, its area extended from New Canaan, a subdistrict on its east border, to the Kinderhook District of Albany County on its west. In 1788, the name of the King's District was changed to Canaan, and in 1795 the town of Chatham was created from portions of Canaan and Kinderhook, causing the hamlet of New Concord to be split between Canaan and Chatham.

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New Concord was organized as a large geographical entity about 1764, but has been progressively reduced to a smaller area as adjacent towns (e.g. Chatham and New Caanan) have grown. In the present era, we don't have our own Post Office, our own zipcode or any official political entities [more historical detial here ]. Nonetheless, the diminished New Concord of today remains a particularly scenic, cordial piece of the rural New York State countryside—with its own societal fabric.

The Society of New Concord continues to be a social and community nexus for New Concord, and strives to be a promoter of local historical preservation, community cohesion, and social enjoyment.

Of Interest
The NorthropName
The Northrop Name - Across the Atlantic
Some Maps
Religious
Professions
General Connecticut Timeline
Town Histories and Information
About early Land Patents
Abolition / Underground Railway and Women's Rights
Witches in Connecticut
Escape to New Jersey
Northrop Distribution

Other Northrops of Note The good, the bad, the ugly
Northrop Aircraft
Cherokee Connection
Northup Autos
Arbor Day Northrop
Clockmakers?

Famous Northrops
check Sarah older sister of Jay Gould married George W. Northrop
The Life and Legend of Jay Gould   By Maury Klein
Elijah square Rule

Isaac the Planner ~~ Turnpikes, Canals, Athens & Esperanza

The Landholders

Northrops Expanding Through New York

Statistically the 8512th most popular last name.

There are 4,272 people in the U.S. with the last name Northrup.

Statistically the 8013th most popular last name.
from http://www.howmanyofme.com/search/

There are fewer than 1,526 people in the U.S. with the first name Northrop. The estimate for this name is not absolute.

There are fewer than 1,526 people in the U.S. with the first name Northrup. The estimate for this name is not absolute.

deed from the Ramapoo Tribe of Indians and their associates to the proprietors, viz. : John Belden, Samuel Keeler, Sen., Matthias Saint John, Benjamin Hickcock, John Beebee, Samuel Saint John, Mathew Seamor, James Brown, Benjamin Wilson, Joseph Birch- ard, John Whitne, Sen., John Bouton, Joseph Keeler, Samuel Smith, Junior, Jonathan Stevens, Daniel Olmstead, Richard Olmstead, John Sturtevant, Samuel Keeler, Junior, Joseph Bouton, Jonathan Rockwell, Edward Waring, Joseph Whitne, Daniel Olmstead, Thomas Hyatt, James Benedick, Joseph Crampton, Ebenezer Sension, Matthias Saint John, all of the Town of Norwalk in ye County of Fairfield in her Majesties Colony of Connecticut, in New England, and Thomas Smith, Thomas Canfield and Samuel Smith of ye Town of Milford in ye County of New Haven a 30th day of September in ye seventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady, Anne, Queen of England, and in the Year of our Lord God 1708.

14. Norwalk, settled 1649; incorporated Sept., 1651, "Norwaukee shall bee a townee," Algonkin noyank, point of land, or more probably from the Indian name, "Naramauke."