Born 6 Nov 1755 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Hussey) Lapham — married 2 Apr 1777 in Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York

Descendants

Died 23 Jan 1802 at age 46 in Queensbury, Warren, New York, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Lapham Name Study.

Stephen was a Friend (Quaker)

Stephen bought several hundred acres of heavily timbered land between Bay and Ridge Roads in Queensbury, NY, which he cleared and sold off for farms.^[1] He died in a fall from the Friends Meeting House where he was shingling the roof.^[1]

Map of Queensbury 1762 - 1785

On 2d 4m 1777 [2 Apr 1777], he married Rachel Hussey of East Hoosick, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[2] The following excerpt is from the records of the Nine Partners monthly meeting:^[2]

2nd day of 4th mo 1777.
Whereas Stephen Lapham & Rachel Hussey both of Easthoosuck in the county of Berkshier & province of Massachesets Bay in Newengland declared their intentions of taking each other in marriage before ...people called Quakers in the Ninepartners in the province of New York … and having consent of parents … ...they the sd Stephen Lapham and Rachel Hussey appeared in an assembly of the aforesaid people called Quakers met to gather at Isaac K?Helbys in easthouswick in the county of Berkshire …
...set their hands
Stephen Lapham
Rachel Lapham
… witnesses …
Jonathan Hussey Hiphzibah Hussey, Benjamin Lapham, Isaac Kelley, Gideon Lapham, Joshua Lapham, Elizabeth Hussey, sarah lapham, Consent Hussey, Judith Anthony, Hannah Kilbey, Judith Kilbey , Lydia Lapham

Stephen and Rachel had several children. Among them were; Benjamin who married Lydia Langdon, daughter of Samuel and Jane Langdon, at Queensbury, NY, August 10, 1809.^{[citation needed]} And a son, Henry G. Lapham, who married a woman named Martha.^{[citation needed]} They were members of the Queensbury Monthly Meeting, Glens Falls, New York.^{[citation needed]}

Children of Stephen and Rachel include:

1. Hephsiba, born 1779, died 1839; married Samuel Tucker
2. Anna, born 1791, died 1871; married Abram Tucker
3. Phebe, born 1783, died 1840; married Moses Tucker
4. Benjamin, born 1789, died 1838; married Lydia Langdon
5. Ruth, born 1790, died 1833; married Nathaniel B. Sisson
6. Clarinda, born 1793, died 1881; married Ambrose Haight
7. Jonathan, born 1798, died 1860; married Elizabeth S. Healy
8. George, born 1799, died 1782; married Comfort Saunders

Stephen was noted as a member of the Easton monthly meeting, residing at Saratoga (meaning the Saratoga Patent) circa 1778.^[3] Also noted was his wife Rachel.^[3]

Stephen met the property requirements to vote in the senatorial elections of 1786 in Queensbury.^[4]

Research Notes

"Laphams in America" lists thirteen children:

1. Maryborn 20 Mar 1778; died 1819; married Aaron Folger.
2. Hepsibah born 7 Dec 1779; died 1839; married Samuel Tucker.
3. Anna born 31 Mar 1781; married Stephen Tucker.
4. Phebe born 27 Jul 1782; died 11 Nov 1840; m. Moses Tucker.
5. Rosetta born 10 May 1785; died 21 Feb, 1809; married 8 Mar 1804 David Haviland.
6. Lydia born 10 Feb 1787; died 1873; married William Sisson.
7. Benjamin born 20 Feb, 1789; died 17 Sep 1839; married Lydia Langdon.
8. Ruth Lapham born 10 Nov 1790; died 20 Jun 1833; married Nathaniel Sisson.
9. Rachel L:apham born 12 Feb 1792; died 8 Sep 1819; married 1816, Stephen Sisson.
10. Clarinda Lapham born 23 Mar 1794; married Ambrose Height.
11. Stephen born 11 Mar 1796; married Anna Langdon.
12. Jonathan Lapham born 20 Apr 1798; died 20 May 1860; married 1821, Elizabeth Shoffield Healey.
13. George born 3 Apr 1800; died 1878 ; married 1) __?__ Roberts, 2) Comfort Saunders.

References quoted are the records of Ralph M. Lapham, Glens Falls, N. Y., a descendant, and American Gen(ealogist?) Vol. XXIV No. 1, p. 246, "with references".^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Eddy, Robert L. Queensburys Heritage: Notes & Quotes on Queensburys History and "Picturesque and Historic Homes of Queensbury". R.L. Eddy, 1991.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Nine Partners Digest. 1769 - 1798. A book of testimonies, marriages, births, deaths, removals and the manumission of slaves. Canadian Friends Historical Association. 2015. page 98.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Monthly meeting records, Membership 1778-1790, Society of Friends, Easton Monthly Meeting of Friends (North Easton, N.Y.), p 4.
4. ↑ Holden, Austin Wells, A history of the town of Queensbury, in the state of New York, with biographical sketches of many of its distinguished men, and some account of the aborigines of northern New York, (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1874), 504.
5. ↑ "Laphams in America" compiled and written by Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge Victor NY 1932-1953 pp 24, 43ff