General Notes
Father: Joel THORP (born 11 SEP 1741 in New Haven, New Haven, CT; died 03 NOV 1790 in New Haven, New Haven, CT)
Mother: Mary STANLEY (born 09 AUG 1744 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT; died 03 MAY 1830 in New Haven, New Haven, CT)
* Married: 29 DEC 1762 in North Haven, New Haven, CT
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Joel was in the War of 1812 and died at the Battle of Lunday's Lane.
He married Sarah Dayton in 1792 and went by and with ox team to Astabula County, Ohio in 1799, settling in a wilderness about 20 miles from the nearest white inhabitant and resided there about one year. During that time a son was born while the Father was away in Pittsburgh to obtain supplies for the family. The chief medical adviser and assistant for the event was an Indian Squaw. Mr. Thorp was detained by heavy rains making the bridgeless streams impassable. From the same cause he was detained again, June following, when he made the same trip on the same errand. During his absence this time the supplies of his family became so low that Mrs. Thorp emptied the straw from the bed ticks, gathered from them the few scattered grains of wheat which she boiled and carefully divided among her little children. This meager supply not being sufficient to support them until the return of their father, Mother Thorp had almost given up in despair when, one day she saw a wild turkey in the clearing. Taking down an old flint-lock gun, she cleaned it up and charged it with the last remnant of gun powder, went out and with great luck, shot the turkey. The family lived well for the next few days during which Father returned.
In 1801 they moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Thorp, a carpenter, built the first frame house in Cleveland for Alonzo Carter which was carelessly burned down by Indian and white children playing in the shavings. Later he built the Judge Kingsberry residence at the corner of Kinsman and Woodland Hills. Warren H. Thorp was born April 12, 1802 where George Worthington's hardware store stood about 1920. In 1804, Joel moved to Newburg Township where the family remained until 1808 when he moved to Buffalo, New York and resided there until the War of 1812 when, in 1812 he joined the U.S. Army and was killed at the Battle of Lunday's Lane. By the burning of Buffalo that followed, all that was left of the household goods was a set of silver spoons which his wife carried away in the bosom of her dress. This disaster broke up the family and they were obliged to scatter and each look out for himself.
It is believed that there were four brothers and three sisters in this family. Three brothers went to Cleveland and one made his way to St. Louis. Of the sisters, Sereness, married a Burnside (or Burnett) and one was married to a Lafler and lived in Detroit. Her name was Diantha. The fate of the Mother and the third sister are not known, but, not likely to have been and easy or ideal one. Maybe someone in the J. P. or Bazaleeh line can tell of the missing members.
H. L. Hallsted 1955
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Death Notes
now Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA
died in the Battle of Lundy's Lane
