Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)

Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Jesse Belnap, grandfather of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap.  Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about Jesse Belnap:

Descendancy Charts

• Descendants of Jesse Belnap (1760-1854) (4 generations–through Jesse’s great grandchildren) (Register format; as of 1 Aug 2019) (PDF)  [UPDATE]

Military Service Records: American Revolutionary War Rolls, Continental Troops, Corp of Artillery, Regiment of Artificers (Folder 73) (Ancestry.com)

• Return of the Names, Ranks & Dats of Commission of the Officers in the Regiment of Artificers in the Service of the United States Under the Command of His Excellency General Washington, 7 Nov 1780
  • Return
• Return of Officers of Regiment of Artificers, 3 Jan 1781
  • Cover
  • Return
• Return of Colonel Jeduthan Baldwin’s Regiment of Artificers, Quota Connecticut (those Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates entitled to Land are Recorded)
  • Cover
  • Page 1
  • Pages 2-3 (Jesse “Bellnap”)
  • Pages 4-5
  • Pages 6-7
  • Pages 8-9
  • Page 10

Military Service Records: American Revolutionary War Military Pension Application

• File Cover
• [Selected Records Sheet]
• Pittsburgh Office Pension Record
• Affidavit of Jesse Belnap, 8 Aug 1832
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  • Page 2
• Pension Record
• Brief in the Case of Jesse Belnap
• Letter from A. D. Hiller to J. E. Dean, 24 Nov 1936
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  • Page 2
• [Nonselected Records Sheet]
• File No. 2068, marked “Invalid”
• Pennsylvania Pension Record
• Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions Form
• Letter from E. C. Tieman to Miss. Wilson, 29 Jan 1914
• Affidavit of Jesse Belnap, 18 Jul 1851
• Erie County, PA, Court of Common Pleas Prothonotary Certification, 21 Jul 1851
• Page marked 7062
• Affidavit of Jacob Alexander, 8 Aug 1832
• Letter from Th. Sumpkin, 30 Jul 1851
• Pittsburgh Pension Record
• Letter from Th. Sumpkin, 26 Nov 1850
• Letter from W. Griffeth to George [M]. Phillips, 16 Apr 1851
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  • Page 2
• Declaration for Increase of Pension, 1 Apr 1851
• Erie County, PA, Court of Common Pleas Prothonotary Certification, 17 Apr 1851
• Brief in the Case of Jesse Belnap
• Pension Payment Record
• War Department, Revolutionary Claim Pension Grant, 28 Jan 1833
• Letter from Hyrum Belnap to Commissioner of Pensions, 20 Mar 1903
• [Backside of Henry W. Belknap Letter]
• Letter from Henry W. Belknap to Commissioner of Pensions, 24 Jan 1912
• [Backside of E. B. Belknap Letter]
• Letter from E. B. Belknap to Bureau of Pensions, 9 Jan 1907
• [Backside of Emma M. A. Reinerteen Letter, date-stamped], 11 Jun 1909
• Letter from Emma M. A. Reinerteen to Commissioner of Pensions, 9 Jun 1909
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• Letter from J. E. Dean to Bureau of Pensions, 10 Nov 1936
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  • Page 2
• [Backside of James Allen Kibbe Letter, date-stamped], 13 Jan 1915
• Letter from James Allen Kibbe to Bureau of Pensions, 12 Jan 1915
• [Backside of L. B. Hitchcock Letter, date-stamped], 27 Jul 1921
• Letter from L. B. Hitchcock to Commissioner of Pensions, 23 Jul 1921
• Letter from Marie Alexander O’Neill to Commissioner of Pensions, 17 Jan 1923
• Letter from E. C. Tieman to Hon. Jeremiah Donovan, 30 Jan 1914
• Statement of Military History of Jesse Belnap, 9 Aug 1921

Military Service Records: American Revolutionary War Military Pension Lists

• U.S. Revolutionary War Pensioners, Pennsylvania, 1831-1848
• U.S. Revolutionary War Pensioners, Pennsylvania, 1849-1864
• U.S. Revolutionary War Pensioners, Pennsylvania, 1849-1864
• 1841 U.S. Revolutionary War Pensioner Census, Pennsylvania–Western District, 1841, p. 122 (as of 1 Jun 1840)

Military Service Records: General

• Grumman, William Edgar. The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Connecticut, and the Record of Their Services (Hartford Press, 1904), p. 125
• Todd, Charles Burr. The History of Redding, Connecticut, From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, 2nd ed. (New York: Grafton Press, 1906), pp. 45, 198
• Crane, Mary Knight; NSDAR. Soldiers of the American Revolution Who at Some Time Were Residents of, or Whose Graves are Located in, Erie County, Pennsylvania (1929), p. 9 [TO COME]
• Sons of the American Revolution. Revolutionary Patriots in Erie County, PA (Gohrs Printing Service, 1995), p. __

Military Service Records: DAR Applications through Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)

• See “Lineage Society Membership Information–American Revolutionary War Ancestry–Daughters of the American Revolution: DAR Applications through Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)“

Military Service Records: SAR Applications through Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)

• See “Lineage Society Membership Information–American Revolutionary War Ancestry–Sons of the American Revolution: SAR Applications through Jesse Belnap (1760-1854)“

Marriage Records

• Grumman, William Edgar. The Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Connecticut, and the Record of Their Services (Hartford Press, 1904), p. 125
• Todd, Charles Burr. The History of Redding, Connecticut, From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, 2nd ed. (New York: Grafton Press, 1906), pp. 45, 198
• Bailey, Frederic W., ed. Early Connecticut Marriages, As Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 (1896), p. 76

Census Records

• 1790 U.S. Federal Census, Canajoharie, Montgomery, NY
• 1800 U.S. Federal Census, Rome, Oneida, NY
• 1810 U.S. Federal Census, Mentz, Cayuga, NY
• 1820 U.S. Federal Census, North East, Erie, PA
• 1830 U.S. Federal Census, North East, Erie, PA
• 1840 U.S. Federal Census, North East, Erie, PA
• 1850 U.S. Federal Census, North East, Erie, PA (16 Oct 1850)

Tax Records

• New York State Tax Assessment Rolls, Rome, Oneida County, 1799 (Ancestry.com) (Jesse “Belknap”)
• New York State Tax Assessment Rolls, Rome, Oneida County, 1800 (Ancestry.com) (Jesse “Belknap”)

Newspaper Articles

• “Treasurer’s Sales Of Unseated Lands And Lots, In Erie County, Pennsylvania–Greenfield Township,” United States Gazette, 21 Mar 1828
• “Died,” Erie Observer, 7 Apr 1849

Probate Records

• Will: Jesse Belnap, North East, Erie, PA, 1 Oct 1852; probated 23 Oct 1854 (Source:  FHL Film #863,927/DGS 005537993, Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Erie County, PA, Will books v. A-B 1823-1856, pp. 526-27; image 412)

Photographs and Images

Headstones

• North East Phillips Cemetery Headstone: Jesse Belnap (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Sep 1991)
• North East Phillips Cemetery Headstone: Eunice Hall (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Sep 1991)
• North East Phillips Cemetery Headstone: (illegible) Belnap (taken by Brent J. Belnap, Sep 1991)

Spouse

• Eunice Hall (1762-1849)

Children

• David Belnap (1780-1858)
• Jesse Belnap (1781-1849)
• Eunice Belnap (1784-1822)
• Ira Belnap (1785-1878)
• Ansel Belnap (1787-1870)
• Rosel Belnap (1789-1832)
• Elem Belnap (1791-1813)
• Anna Belnap (1792-1810)
• Gilbert Belnap (1794-1851)
• Sarah (“Sally”) Belnap (1795-1879)
• Polly Belnap (1797-1854)
• Laura Belnap (1799-1875)
• Betsy Belnap (1800-1801)
• Hiram Belnap (1802-1848)
• Isabel Belnap (1804-1806)

Parents

• Jesse Belknap (1739-after 1818)
• Eunice Hall (about 1741-1774)

Last update:  29 Nov 2022