Genealogy

My earliest ancestor’s arrival in North America is reported to be in the year 1631 to what is now Massachusetts.

One of my seventh great-grandfathers Israel Knapp in 1754 converted his home into a tavern that exists now as a museum in Greenwich, Connecticut and is in the National Register of Historic Places.

One of my sixth great-grandfathers, Myer Benjamin Myers (pg. 133-144), came from Hungary in 1752 with his wife Rachel. He was a successful and well-educated merchant in Newport, Rhode Island. He was buried in the cemetery near Touro Synagogue upon his death in November 1776. His wife Rachel and their children later moved to New York City, where Rachel was buried in the First Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel. One of their sons, Mordechai Myers, served honorably in the War of 1812 and became mayor of Schenectady, New York and served in the NY State Assembly. At the age of 84, Mordecai was nominated to, but ran unsuccessfully for the US Congress. One of their daughters, Sarah Myers Hays, had a descendant named Iphigene Sulzberger who married Adolph Ochs in 1892.

By the Mathematics Genealogy Project record my Erdős number == 5.