Ninth Generation

336. Captain John Bushnell KNAPP I (*)³⁷⁸ was born on 14 August 1697 in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^193,377,967 He served in the military about 1758.³⁷⁸ He served in the French & Indian War. The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the start of the war, the French colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the British colonies. The outnumbered French particularly depended on their native allies.

Two years into the war, in 1756, Great Britain declared war on France, beginning the worldwide Seven Years' War. Many view the French and Indian War as being merely the American theater of this conflict; however, in the United States the French and Indian War is viewed as a singular conflict which was not associated with any European war. He died on 5 May 1763 at the age of 65 at on Lake Erie in Lake City, Erie County, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America.^{193,377,967,968} on board a ship. He was an officer in the French and Indian War. John was buried.⁹⁶⁸ He was buried in Lake Erie.
Mary Margaret Rebecca TAYLOR (*) and Captain John Bushnell KNAPP I (*) were married on 21 December 1724 in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.^{193,377,378,967} They had 12 children.

337. Mary Margaret Rebecca TAYLOR (*) was born in 1705 in Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.³⁷⁷ She died in 1775 at the age of 70.⁹⁶⁷

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