Christopher Billopp (Royal Navy officer)

"Bentley Manor", now known as "The Conference House"

Christopher Billopp (ca.1638 - 1726) was a captain in the British Royal Navy in the seventeeth century who commanded various ships of the line including the HMS Greenwich in the Battle of Bantry Bay After his service to the British Crown he was granted a land patent of 932 acres on Staten Island in the colony of New York, where he built a stone manor house he named "Bentley Manor", after the name of a small ship he commanded the "Bentley".

The house, inherited by his great grandson Colonel Christopher Billopp a British Loyalist during the American Revolution, was the setting for a failed peace conference between Lord Howe and members of the Continental Congress. His house is now a United States National Historic Landmark known as the Conference House.^[1]

Naval Career

Billopp served on a variety of Royal Navy ships:

HMS Suffolk during the Battle of Barfleur
HMS Ossory
HMS London
HMS Greenwich during the Battle of Bantry Bay
HMS Victory
HMS Deptford: a 10 gun ketch.

References

^ History of Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmar, and Some of their Descendants in America by Charles Farmer Billopp (Hardcover - Sept. 22, 2009)Publisher: BiblioLife Language: English ISBN 1113765771 ISBN 978-1113765772

[1] History of Thomas and Anne Billopp Farmar, and Some of their Descendants in America by Charles Farmer Billopp (Hardcover - Sept. 22, 2009)Publisher: BiblioLife Language: English ISBN 1113765771 ISBN 978-1113765772

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