Per Portrait and biographical record of Rockland and Orange Counties, New York: ". . . The founder of the numerous Van Etten family was Jacob Jansen Van Etten, who emigrated to this country from Etten, in North Brabant, Holland. He married Annatje Adrienance, of Amsterdam, in the 28th of December, 1664, at Kingston, N.Y. . ."
Maybe d 1783 (ref LDS Ped Res File CD1).
Names Of The First Settler In Concord, Erie County (Niagra), New York
Names of persons settling in previous to Jan 1, 1815
http://members.tripod.com/~wnyroots/index-concord-early.htmlIN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE TOWN
Isaiah Pike
James Pike
Lewis Trevitt
John Ures
Jessie Putnan
Thos. M. Barrett
Reuben Metcalf
Sylvenus Kingsley
comfort Knapp
Arad Knapp"Comfort KNAPP...was a brother of Sylvanus KNAPP. He was a wholesale merchant in Boston [Suffolk County, MA] for some years, but meeting with misfortune in business, he moved to the town of Boston, Erie County, NY, where he cleared a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died in Pine Grove, Warren County, PA, aged 87 years. He was a close communion Baptist, and served as deacon for over forty years. " -Excerpted from Commemorative and Biographical Record of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, WI. Chicago: Ogle, 1901, p 374-376 (bio for Comfort Hamilton Knapp)
TOWN OF CONCORD; The Early Land Owners; Names of Persons Buying Land from the Holland Company.
Date, N umber of lot, the number of acres and the price paid
]Township 7, Range 7] Comfort Knapp/ 1810, Nov. 29. / N-E pt. 1- 48 / 100 / 250TOWN OF CONCORD: listed at a carpenter and joiner
TOWN OF CONCORD: served in War of 1812
TOWN OF CONCORD biographies: In the biography re: The Horton Brothers, who settled in 1817 "The only settler in Concord neighborhood of their new home was Comfort Knapp why had been there four or five years. Sylvester and William Knapp came the same year."
TOWN OF CONCORD: in 1822 the Concord Lodge of Masons, No. 346, made him first Master.