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Elinor

Female Bef 1611 - 1658  (> 47 years)


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  • Name Elinor  
    Born Bef 1611  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 16 Aug 1658  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I855  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Nicholas Knapp,   b. Abt 1606, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 15 Apr 1670 to 27 Apr 1670, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Married Abt 1630  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Jonathan Knapp,   b. From 1 Nov 1631 to 8 Nov 1631, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Dec 1631, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     2. Timothy Knapp,   b. 14 Dec 1632, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1697, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 66 years)
     3. Joshua Knapp,   b. 5/05 Jan 1634/5, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1684, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years)
     4. Caleb Knapp,   b. 20/20 Jan 1636/7, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 11 Oct 1674 to 4 Mar 1674/1675, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
     5. Sarah Knapp,   b. 5/05 Jan 1638/9, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1681, Rye, Westchester, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years)
     6. Ruth Knapp,   b. 6/06 Jan 1640/1, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1702, of Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
     7. Hannah Knapp,   b. 6/06 Mar 1642/3, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1670, of Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 28 years)
     8. Moses Knapp,   b. Abt 1645, of Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1725, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years)
     9. Lydia Knapp,   b. Abt 1647, of Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Dec 1716, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
     10. Josiah Knapp,   b. Abt 1650, of Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1670  (Age ~ 19 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F177  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Caution: Some undocumented sources indicate Elinor may be the daughter of Edmund Lockwood of Combs, Suffolk, England. This should be considered erroneous. Refer to the research of Robert Charles Anderson as quoted in the notes of Edmund and Alice (Cowper) Lockwood for more modern research into the children of the couple. The most accurate statement is provided by Harriet Woodbury Hodge as follows: "Elinor, first wife of Nicholas Knapp of Watertown, Massachusetts and Fairfield, Connecticut, has been called "Lockwood" in older Knapp genealogies. No known record supports this identification. "The Nicholas Knapp Genealogy' by Alfred Averill Knapp, 1953, states that the origin of Nicholas Knapp is unknown and calls his wife simply Elinor. Elinor died 6 or 8-16-1658 at Fairfield and Nicholas died 4-16-1670. (See source below.)
      Some have speculated on Elinor being a Lockwood based on Elinor's husband getting in trouble in 1630s in Watertown, Mass. for selling ordinary water as a cure for scurvy. Edmund Lockwood (and others) put up the bail of 5 pounds and it is this connection plus tradition that indicates Elinor was a sister to Edmund and Robert (who administered Edmund's will in Cambridge).

      2. From "The Knapp Family" at website: "http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/Knapp.html": Notes of Hal Young: Re: Elinor Lockwood - Some have indicated the Elinor's maiden name was Disbrow (Disbrough). Evidence that it was Lockwood comes from the manuscript compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp on Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953). On page 3 of that book is the following quote from the Hartford Times, Oct. 23, 1943, genealogical page, Query A-2695: "The late Judge H. Stanley Finch, long Surrogate Judge at Stamford and a keen student of Lockwood, Finch, and allied families, gave his opinion that Elinor, wife of Nicholas Knapp, was daughter of Edmund Lockwood of Combs, Suffolk, England and sister of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Mass. and of Robert Lockwood (1600-1658) of Watertown, Mass. and Fairfield, Conn. This seems probable though documentary proof is lacking."

      3. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), page 173-175: "Knap, Knapp, Nicholas - bc1600, d1670, m1 c1630 Elinor (prob Lockwood0 (d 1658, sis/o Robert and Edmund), m2 1659 Unica Brown (d by 1670, wd/o Clement Buxton. wd/o Peter). Nicolas Knap, his wife Elinor, and seven children [this seems incorrect] came to America on the 'Arbella' in 1630. They came from Burys St. Mary in Suffolk, probably,..."

      4. FHL Book 929.273 L814a or FHL film 1321248, item 6, 'Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c. 1625-1693) of Stamford Connecticut,' by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., 1978, p. 82: "ELINOR and ROSE, CALLED Lockwood"
      Elinor, first wife of Nicholas Knapp of Watertown, Massachusetts and Fairfield, Connecticut, has been called "Lockwood" in older Knapp genealogies. No known record supports this identification. "The Nicholas Knapp Genealogy' by Alfred Averill Knapp, 1953, states that the origin of Nicholas Knapp is unknown and calls his wife simply Elinor. Elinor died 6 or 8-16-1658 at Fairfield and Nicholas died 4-16-1670. He married secondly Unica (Unity) Brown, widow of Peter Brown and Clement Buxton on 3-9-1659.
      No evidence has yet been discovered to indicate that Rose, who married about 1639- 40 John Waterbury, was a Lockwood. John died at Stamford, Connecticut 31 July 1658. The late Virginia Olson, genealogist of the Stamford Genealogical Society, did extensive research to uncover a Lockwood connection for Rose, without success. She did find much to show that Rose was not a daughter of either Robert or Edmund Lockwood. Mrs. Olson believed the confusion in Waterbury genealogies, such as Albert Welles' American Family Antiquity (1880-1), 3:163, came about because Rose (___) Waterbury married at Stamfold, as her second husband, on 11 May 1659, Joseph Garnsey. Their son, Joseph Garnsey, born at Stamford 30 June 1662, married there 2 March 1692/3 Mary Lockwood, daughter of Edmund Lockwood and his wife Hannah Scott of Stamford. Apparently the two Joseph Garnseys became confused in the minds of Watersbury descendants and Mary's surname was transferred to her mother-in-law, Rose.
      Robert Lockwood, who died in 1658 at Fairfield, Connecticut, had daughters Deborah, Abigail, Sarah and Mary, according to his probate records. Edmund Lockwood, Robert's brother, died before 3 March 1634/5 at Cambridge, Massachusetts and his children are mentioned but not named in the estate proceedings. However, Edmund Lockwood and his second wife, Elizabeth Masters, had a son, John Lockwood, born __ November 1632, recorded at Cambridge. A series of records (see Appendices 1 & 2) show that when this John Lockwood died without issue in 1683 at New London, Connecticut, the sole heir was his brother (evidently half-brother) Edmund Lockwood [Jr.] of Stamford. Although "elder children" of Edmund Lockwood are mentioned in the estate records; it appears that the other siblings of John and Edmund Lockwood did not survive or have heirs living in 1683."

      5. The book: "Genealogy of the Lockwood Family 1630-1888 - Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America from A.D. 1630," compiled by Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood, printed privately by the family, 1889, Philadelphia: "...freeman of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in New England, May 18th, 1631. (Records of Mass. vol.1, p.366. John Farmer, Gen'l Reg., p.181) Was of Cambridge in 1632. (John Farmer, ibid.) In Paige's History of Cambridge, Mass., 1632, p.32, the same 8 names are mentioned on p.8, as being the first 8 inhabitants of New Town, and in both lists Mr. Edmund Lockwood's name appears third..." (Note: see hard file for numerous court records in which Edmund is mentioned. Note especially his willingness to pay the five pound fine of Nicholas Knapp who may have been his brother-in-law.) "He died previous to 3 Mar 1634-5, when his widow Ruth [?Elizabeth] was ordered by the court to place all writings left by her husband in the hands of John Haynes, etc...he was a brother of Robert Lockwood of Watertown, who was executor of his estate...to dispose of the elder children of said E.L. and the estate given to them at their discretion. It is probable that he had two wives, the first of whom was the mother of 'the elder children' assigned to the care of the Watertown church. His second wife was Elizabeth, dau. of John Masters, of Watertown, by whom he had a son John, born in New Towne, Nov. 1632. After his decease his widow married Cary Latham, of New Towne, who moved to New London, Conn., and by him she had several children. It is probable that all of the name of Lockwood in New England are descended from Robert and Edmund, and there is not much doubt but that there is a misnomer of the widow of Edmund in the Court Records of Massachusetts Bay."

      6. "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy," compiled by Alfred Averill Knapp, M.D. "This Genealogy of the Descendants of Nicholas Knapp, first found mentioned at Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630, is the result of the work and research of many individuals. The four principal collectors of data were Charles Ruggles Knapp, Henry Eno Knapp, Ezra Fred Knapp and the author, Alfred Averill Knapp, but they were assisted through correspondence by a large number of individuals who furnished much valuable family and local information..." First Generation:
      "A-1. Nicholas Knapp, our immigrant ancestor.
      Parentage unknown.
      B. In England. Exact place unknown.
      D. 4-16-1670, Fairfield, Conn.
      M. 1st Elinor . She d. 6 or 8-16-1658, Fairfield, Conn. 2nd Unica (Unity) Brown, widow of Peter Brown, 3-9-1659. She had been previously widow of Clement Buxton. Clement Buxton was in Stamford, Conn. in 1650 and d. there 8-2-1657. He had daus. Sarah and Unity and a son, Clement. His widow, Unity, m. 7-22-1658, Peter Brown, of Stamford, Conn. who d. soon after. His widow m. for the 3rd time, Nicholas Knapp as his 2nd wife. All children b. at Watertown, Mass. except Lydia.
      B-1. Jonathan, b. 11-8-1631, Watertown, Mass. Buried 12-27-1631, age 7 weeks.
      B-2. Timothy, b. 10 or 12-14-1632. d before 1685. m. Bethia Brandish.
      B-3. Joshua, b. 11-5-1634 or 1-5-1635. d. 10-27-1684. m. Hannah Close.
      B-4. Caleb, b. 11-20-1636 or 1-20-1637. d. before 3-4-1675. m. Hannah Smith.
      B-5. Sarah, b. 1-5-1638/9. m. 1st John Disbrow 6-12-1657. 2nd 4 or 9-6-1667, Peter Disbrow, of Rye, Conn. Peter lived in Rye in 1660, was one of the purchasers of Rye from the Indians. Was said to be 50 years old. He was Representative from Rye in 1665. Also from Greenbush. Sarah d. in 1681. Had dau. Martha who m. Peter Brown.
      B-6. Ruth, b. 1-6-1640/41. m. 9 or 11-20-1657, Joseph Ferris, son of Jeffrey Ferris. Joseph b. 1638. d. 1699. They moved to Stamford, Conn. in 1646. He was made Proprietor at Greenwich, Conn. 2-5-1664. Jeffrey Ferris was made Freeman at Watertown, Mass. 5-6-1635. Moved to Stamford in 1640. d. 5-31-1666. (See Ferris Genealogy.) The children of Ruth and Joseph Ferris were: (1) John, oldest son, m. 2-13-1695, Abigail Hait of Norwalk. (2) Peter, b. 11-8-1660. d. 1-23-1690. Perhaps m. 12-12-1686, Mary ___. No heirs. (3) James, m. ca. 1705, Rachel, widow of Nathaniel Mead. (4) Ruth, m. 11-27-1685, Samuel Peck and d. 9-17-1745. (5) Moses, m. Eunice ___ and d. in 1748. (6) Joshua, d. 2-2-1746, single, estate distributed to brothers and sisters or their heirs. After his father's death, he purchased from his mother all her rights in her late husband's estate. She probably lived with her son Joshua or dau. Lydia. (7) Benjamin, d. 7-10-1710. m. Sarah (perhaps Weed). (8) Hannah b. ca. 1673. d. 4-14-1711, m. Jonathan Austin. He b. 1685. d. 1769. (9) Lydia, m. John Runnolds. (10) Caleb, m. Elizabeth ___. (11) Joseph, m. Abigail ___ and d. 4-7-1735. The executors of Joseph Ferris's estate were his brother Peter and son-in-law, Samuel Peck, in 1699. He left his lands in Horseneck to sons John and James. His lands on Cos Cob Neck to Moses, Benjamin and Caleb. Sons Joseph and Joshua and dau. Ruth Peck, "Lidia Runolds" and Hannah were mentioned. Probably Hannah was not yet m. Jeffrey Ferris came to the part of Stamford that later became Greenwich. He m. 1st (name unknown). She was mother of all his children. m. 2nd Susannah, widow of Robert Lockwood. d. 1666. m. 3rd Judith (Judy) Feake Palmer, who m. after Jeffrey's death, ___ Bowers, erroneously sometimes called Burns. Jeffrey's only dau. m. Jonathan Lockwood, son of Robert and Susannah. There were 4 Ferris sons- John of Westchester, Peter of Stamford, Joseph and James of Greenwich. Both Peter and Joseph left widows named Ruth, and it was Peter's widow who m. John Clapp, not Joseph's.
      B-7. Hannah, b. 3-6-1643. d. 12-11-1674 or 6-4-1696. m. 1673, Zerubebel Hoyt, of Norwalk, Conn., son of Walter Hoyt. He was b. ca. 1650. d. ca. 1727/8. Had dau. Hannah who m. Joseph Whitney. Lived at Stamford, Conn.
      B-8. Moses, b. ca. 1643 or 1646 or 1656. d. at Peekskill, N.Y. in 1756, "a very old man." m. 1669 Abigail Westcoat.
      B-9. Lydia, b. 6-8-1647/48, Stamford, Conn. d. Dec. 1716. Her will made 12-1-1716. Probated 12-19-1716. She m. Dr. Isaac Hall, Stratford, Conn., son of Francis Hall, as his 2nd wife. Dr. Hall was a prominent physician in his day, b. in England in 1629. d. 5-17-1714, Stratford, Conn. He took the Oath of Fidelity at New Haven, Conn. 4-7-1657. Lydia and Dr. Hall had: (1) Dr. Isaac, b. 11-8-1667. (2) Sarah, b. 5-3-1668. (3) Lydia, b. 9-21-1670. (4) Elizabeth, b. 11-11-1672. (5) Samuel, b. 9-14-1674. (6) Francis, b. 9-16-1676. (7) John, b. 2-8-1678. (8) Mary, b. 8-7-1681. (9) Abigail, b. 4-1-1683. (10) John, b. 1-3-1679. (11) Jonathan, b. 12-2-1684. (12) Hannah. Francis Hall, the father of Dr. Isaac Hall, was in New Haven, Conn. in 1639 and in Stratford after 1648. He was made Freeman in the Conn. Jurisdiction in 1657. He left a large estate in Fairfield, Conn., dying in 1690 at Stratford. He brought his 1st wife, Elizabeth, from England. He m. 2nd 10-31-1665, Dorothy, widow of John Blakeman and dau. of Dr. Henry Smith. Dorothy m. 3rd Mark Sension, of Norwalk, Conn. who d. in 1693. She m. 4th Deacon Isaac Moore, of Farmington, Conn. Francis Hall had the following children, all by his 1st wife:-Isaac-Samuel-Mary-Elizabeth-Rebecca and Hannah who m. Joseph Blakeman.
      ...Copied from the Hartford Times, Oct. 23, 1943, genealogical page, Query, A-2695: "Nicholas Knapp, Emigrant, d. Stamford, Conn. Sept 16, 1670: his wife Elinor, d. there Aug 16, 1658. The late Judge H. Stanley Finch, long Surrogate Judge at Stamford and a keen student of Lockwood, Finch and allied families, gave his opinion that Elinor, wife of Nicholas Knapp, was dau. of Edmund Lockwood of Combs, Suffolk, England and sister of Edmund Lockwood, (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Mass. and of Robert Lockwood (1600-1658) of Watertown, Mass. and Fairfield, Conn. This seems probable, though documentary proof is lacking."

      7. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991:
      "Early research in the early days, found Nicholas Knapp, the immigrant, came to America, in 1630, with the Winthrop/Saltonstall Fleet. Fortunately, for the purpose of our list of immigrant ancestors (Nicholas Knapp, et al), there exists a list of 70 names of those who came with the Winthrop/Saltonstall Fleet; a rough list prepared by John Winthrop, and found entered in a flyleaf in the original Winthrop Journal disconnected from the main text. It was from this list that Nicholas Knapp and wife, Elinor, was identified...
      We know from the Winthrop Journals that the Winthrop Fleet departed Southampton, England on 22 Mar 1630; sailed to Yarmouth for an approximate 2 week delay; finally setting sail for America on 6 April 1630...
      Many writings found today pertaining to the wife of Nicholas Knapp, Elinor, make many claims that are probable conjecture. Some say the marriage of Nicholas and Elinor, took place at Watertown, while Charles E Banks, in his book "THE WINTHROP FLEET of 1630," an account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and their English Homes from Original Authorities, reflects Nicholas and wife Elinor, as husband and wife; Elinor, being so identified from the Boston Town Record. While this does not identify specifically that they were married prior to the voyage, it does not identify the marriage as having taken place after arrival in America. My personal opinion is that the marriage took place in England, based on the theory that a condition for joining the movement to America was for a man to have a wife, as well as a trade of necessity for the well being and establishment of the Colony. Many researchers of this line of Knapp's seem to place Elinor, as having been a "Lockwood" and also as a "DISBROW," the first being the most predominate. This has been proven to be conjectural in nature, as recent research as late as 1985/1986, by both researchers of the Lockwood and Disbrow Lines, fail to identify an Elinor Lockwood or Disbrow. For those that claim either as a maiden name; none have been forthcoming with any documentary evidence to support the idea, either way. In view of this and for our purposes, the records of this compilation will reflect her maiden name as "unknown." As far as is known, mention is made of Elinor, wife of Nicholass Knapp, in two places- 1. Boston Town Records; 2. Stamford Probate Records, where her death is recorded, as having died intestate."

      8. The Ordinance index shows an "Elin" which I believe is just an error for "Elinor".

      9. "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), by Robert Charles Anderson, 1995. Note that the entry was later edited and republished in 2014 by the same author; see "The Winthrop Fleet; Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630" (NEHGS; Boston, 2014). The version below is the most current version:
      "NICHOLAS KNAPP
      ORIGIN: Unknown
      MIGRATION: 1630 (based on appearance at court on 1 March 1630/1 [MBCR 1:83])
      FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown.
      REMOVES: Stamford 1646.
      EDUCATON: Signed by mark as a witness to the will of Nicholas Thele [Stamford TR 1:62-63]. Signed his will by mark. His inventory included "books" valued at 6s. 6d. and an "old Bible," value not stated [Fairfield PR 2:56].
      OFFICES: His inventory included "1 gun & hanger" valued at 14s. [Fairfield PR 2:56].
      ESTATE: On 25 July 1636, "Nicholas Knap" was granted a Great Dividend of thirty acres in Watertown [WaBOP 4 ["Lands, Grants, Divisions, Allotments, Possessions, and Proprietor's Book" in "Watertown Records Comprising the 1st and 2nd Books of Town Proceedings")]. On 28 February 1636/7, "Nicholas Knap" was granted six acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands [WaBOP 6]. On 26 Jun 1637, Nicholas Knap was granted seven acres in Remote Meadows [WaBOP 9]. On 10 May 1642, "Nicholas Knap" was granted a Farm of one hundred seventeen acres [WaBOP 12].
      In the Watertown Inventory of Grants, "Nicholas Knap" held seven parcels of land: "an homestall of sixteen acres"; "two acres in Pine Marsh"; "one acre of meadow"; "thirty acres of upland ... being a Great Dividend in the second division & the seventeen lot": "six acres of plowland ... in the Hither Plain"; "seven acres in Remote Meadows ... & the thirty-nine lot"; and "thjirteen acres of upland ... beyond the Farther Plain & the fifty-nine lot" [WaBOP 86].
      In the Watertown Composite Inventory, "Nicholas Knap" held eight parcels of land: "an homestall of sixteen acres"; "two acres in Pine marsh"; "one acre in Pond Meadow"; "thirty acres of upland being a Great Dividend in the 2 division & the 17 lot"; "six acres of plowland in the Hither Plain & the 35 lot"; "seven acres of meadow in the Remote Meadows & the 39 lot"; "thirteen acres of upland beyond the Further Plain & the 59 lot"; and "A Farm of one hundred & seventeen acres of upland" [WaBOP 29].
      On the 29 September 1645, "Nicholas Knap of Watertowne" sold to "Edward Garfield of the same town one acre of meadow lying in the same town" [SLR 1:71]. On 6 May 1646, "Nicholas Knapp of Watertowne" sold to "Bryan Pendletown ... all his land in Watertowne granted by the town as by the transcript may appear with all the housing thereupon (only one acre in Pond Meadow formerly being sold excepted) with all the privileges thereunto belonging" [SLR 1:71].
      On 26 September 1651, "Elyas Bayly" sold to Nickles Knape ... his house and homelot, bought of Jo[hn] Coe ..., the said land containing an acre & half" [Stamford TR 1:51]. (This is the only direct reference to land at Stamford held by Nicholas Knapp. There are, however, many references to him as an abutter to the land of other Stamford inhabitants [Stamford TR 1:26, 27, 29, 31-37, 41, 46].)
      In his will, dated 15 Apr 1670 and proved on an unknown date, "Nicholas Knap of Standford" bequeathed to "my son Moses Knap my house and land in Standford with all the meadows and upland belonging unto me," with same moveables; to "my son Timothy the monies remaining due to me upon the bill for the house of John Bats lives in"; to "my son Calep the loom and half the gears and the other half of the gears I give to my son Josuah"; to "my daughter Sarah Disbrowe the money due to me from her husband, about 37s. concerning the horse"; to "my daughter Hanna one mare"; to my daughter Lidea the mare that was Mr. Bishop's with the increase she hath"; to "my daughter Ruth twenty shillings"; to "my two daughters-in-law, viz: Sarah & Uneca Buxton all their mother's clothes as a free gift, except one hat and one new petticoat which my will is they have onward of their portions"; to "Uneca Buxton the new Bible as a free gift"; the portions due to my two daughters-in-law, viz: Sarah Buxton & Uneca Buxton out of the estate of their father Clement Buxton, I say that their part and portions be currently paid according to their proportion of that inventory"; "my son Josuah Knap [to be] sole executor" [Fairfield PR 2:55].
      The inventory of the estate of "Nicolas Knap deceased," taken 27 April 1670, totalled ₤166 13s. 11-1/2d., of which ₤50 was real estate: "house and lands," ₤50 [Fairfield PR 2:56].
      BIRTH: By about 1606 (based on estimated date of marriage).
      DEATH: Stamford between 15 April 1670 (date of will) and 27 April 1670 (date of inventory).
      MARRIAGE: (1) By 1631 Elinor ____. She died at Stamford 16 August 1658 [Stamford TR 1:24].
      (2) Stamford 9 March 1659 Unica (____) (Buxton) Brown [Stamford TR 1:77]. She was the widow of Clement Buxton and Peter Brown [Gillespie Anc 61-63], and had apparently died by 15 April 1670, as she is not mentioned in Nicholas Knapp's will.
      CHILDREN:
      With first wife
      i. JONATHAN KNAPP, b. Watertown early November 1631 (calc.); bur. Watertown 27 December 1631 "aged 7 weeks" [WaVR 1:3; NEHGR 6:380].
      ii. TIMOTHY KNAPP, b. Watertown 14 December 1632 [WaVR 1:3; NEHGR 6:380]; m. by about 1658 Bethia ___ (possibly Bethia Brundish [GM 2:1:447-48]).
      iii. JOSHUA KNAPP, b. Watertown 5 January 1634[/5] [WaVR 1:3; NEHGR 6:380]; m. Stamford 9 June 1657 Hannah Close ("The American Genealogist" 10:45).
      iv. CALEB KNAPP, b. Watertown 20 January 1636[/7] [WaVR 1:4; NEHGR 7:159]; m. by 1661 Hannah Smith (eldest child b. Stamford 24 November 1661 ["The American Genealogist" 10:174); in his will of 4 July 1687 Henry Smith of Stamford bequeathed to grandson John Knapp [FOOF 1:575]).
      v. SARAH KNAPP, b. Watertown 5 January 1638[/9] [WaVR 1:5; NEHGR 7:160]; m. Stamford 6 April 1657 Peter Disborough ["The American Genealogist" 10:112].
      vi. RUTH KNAPP, b. Watertown 6 January 1640[/1] [WaVR 1:8; NEHGR 7:162]; m. Stamford 20 November 1657 Joseph Ferris ["The American Genealogist" 10:112], son of JEFFREY FERRIS {1634, Watertown} [GM 2:2:517-21]
      vii. HANNAH KNAPP, b. Watertown 6 March 1643[/4?] [WaVR 1:11; NEHGR 7:283]; named in father's will, 15 April 1670; no further record.
      viii. MOSES KNAPP, b. say 1645; m. by 1669 Abigail Westcott (on 4 January 1669[/70], Moses Knapp receipted, in the right of his wife, for his share of the estate of Richard Westcott [FOOF1:660]).
      ix. LYDIA KNAPP, b. say 1647; m. Fairfield 16 Jan 1666/7 Isaac Hall [FOOF 1:250].
      ASSOCIATIONS: See WILLIAM KNOPP {1630, Watertown} for a discussion of suggestions of a relationship between William and Nicholas. [Note: In the "Great Migration Newsletter," v. 4, p. 31, 1993, Mr. Anderson reviews Clifford Stott's article in NEHGR 147:313-28 concerning William Knapp/Knopp and states: "Stott found nothing to support the oft-stated claim of close kinship between William Knopp and Nicholas Knapp of Watertown."] COMMENTS: On 1 March 1630/1, "Nich[olas] Knopp is fined £5 for taking upon him to cure the scurvy by a water of no worth nor value, which he sold at a very dear rate, to be imprisoned till he pay his fine, or give security for it, or else to be whipped, & shall be liable to any man's action of whom he hath received money for the said water" [MBCR 1:83]; at the same court, "Mr. Will[ia]m Pelham & Mr. Edmond Lockewood hath promised to pay to the court the sum of ₤5, for Nich[olas] Knopp, before the last court of May next" [MBCR 1:83]. On 7 August 1632, "£3 of Knop's fine of £5 remitted" [MBCR 1:99]. At the general amnesty of 6 September 1638, it was noted that part of this fine "was paid, & the rest was remitted" [MBCR 1:243]. In the Beaverbrook Plowlands Nicholas Knapp received six acres, and in the Remote Meadows seven acres. Since these lands were granted in part on household size, this would suggest a birth in the interval between the two grants; the birth of Caleb fell exactly one month before the Beaverbrook Plowlands grant, and it may be that this was not taken into account for the Beaverbrook Plowlands grant, but was for the Remote Meadows grant. At the date of the Remote Meadows grant of seven acres, the Nicholas Knapp family was known to have five members: Nicholas, wife Elinor, and sons Timothy, Joshua and Caleb. This permits the possibility that there were one or two more persons in the household, not necessarily children; but the difference might also be explained if Nicholas had sufficient wealth in cattle, the other criterion for the size of these grants."

      10. The book "The Early Settlement of Stamford, Connecticut 1641-1700…," by Jeanne Majdalany, pp. 173-75:
      "KNAP, KNAPP, Nicholas - bc 1600, d1670, m1 c1630 Elinor (prob Lockwood) (d1658, sis/o Robert and Edmund), m2 1659 Unica Brown (d by 1670, wd/o Clement Buxton. wd/o Peter).
      Nicolas Knap, his wife Elinor, and seven children came to America on the "Arbella" in 1630. They came from Burys St. Mary in Suffolk, probably. In 1631 Nicolas was fined in Watertown, MA for selling water for scurvy at too high a price. He was in Stamford by 1649, having been previously in Rye, NY, and Greenwich. After the death of his wife, he married Unica Brown, the recent widow of Clement Buxton, and moved into the Buxton home on the east side of West Street.
      His grandson Moses was a blacksmith in the 1680s.
      Descendants of KNAP, Nicolas:
      A. Jonathan - b&d1631.
      B. Timothy - b1632, d by 1685, mc1665 Bethia Brundage (d/o John). Rye, NY.
      C. Joshua - b1634, d1684, m1657 Hannah Close (bc1632, d1696, she m2 John Bowers). Greenwich.
      D. Caleb - b1637, dc1674, mc1660 Hannah Smith (d1685?, d/o Henry, she m2 167- Thomas Lawrence.
      1. Caleb - b1661, d bef 1717, m1694 Hannah Clements (d/o William), of Norwalk and Goshen, CT.
      a. Caleb - b1695, d1761.
      b. William - b1697, d1770.
      c. Sarah - b1700.
      d. Abigail - b1702.
      e. Joshua - b1704.
      f. Joseph - b1706.
      g. Hannah - b1710.
      h. Jonathan - b1713.
      i. Benjamin - b1717.
      j. Reuben - b1717.
      2. Capt John - b1664, d1749, m1 1692 Hannah Ferris (b1666, d1724, d/o Peter), m2 1727 Mrs Martha Weed.
      a. Lt Samuel - b1695, d1751, m1 1720 Martha Slason (b1699, d1747, d/o John Jr), m2 1749 Mrs Marcy Bouton.
      b. Lt John - b1697, d1763, m1 1723 Deborah Cross (b1702, d/o Nathaniel), m2 1736 Abigail Hoyt (d/o Samuel).
      c. Hannah - b1699, d1724, m1 1716 Isaac Quintard, m2 Jessup.
      d. Peter - b1701.
      e. Charles - b1703, d1773.
      f. Deborah - b1705.
      g. Moses - b1709, d1787.
      3. Moses - b1666, d1753, m1688 Elizabeth Crissy (d/o William). Reading, CT.
      a. Elizabeth - b1690.
      4. Samuel - b1668, d1739, mc1696 Hannah Bushnell. Greenwich and Danbury, CT.
      5. Sarah - b1670, m1691 Ebenezer Mead.
      6. Hannah - b1672.
      E. Sarah - b1639, d1681, m1 John Disbrow, m2 1657 Peter Disbrow.
      F. Ruth - b1641, m1 1657 Joseph Ferris, m2 1708 John Clapp.
      G. Hannah - b1643, d1674, m1673 Zarubbabel Hoyt.
      H. Moses - b1646, d aft 1713, m1669 Abigail Westcott (bc 1642, d aft 1713, d/o Richard).
      1. Lydia - bc1670, d1710, m1685 Thomas Penoyer.
      2. Abigail - b1672, d1706, m1692 John Crissy.
      3. Sarah - b1674, d1717, m Samuel Husted.
      4. Hannah - bc1676, m1 1696 Nathaniel Cross, m2 1715 Samuel Palmer.
      I. Lydia - b1648, d1716, in Richard Mills.
      J. Josiah? -.
      References: Alfred Averill Knapp, The Nicolas Knapp Genealogy."

      11. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 50, no. 4 (May 2008), " Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut (Continued), by Frederick C. Hart, Jr., CG, FASG, pp. 146-48:
      "NICHOLAS1 KNAPP was in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1 March 1630/31, when he was fined for selling some "water of noe worth nor value" as a cure for scurvy.[1] Since this was wintertime when no ships made the Atlantic voyage, it is likely that he had arrived well before this time, perhaps during the summer of 1630.[2] Anderson estimates that he was born by about 1606, based on the estimated date of his marriage.[3] He died at Stamford between 15 and 27 April 1669/70, the dates of his will and his inventory.[4] The family name was generally spelled Knap until about 1800, but the current spelling of Knapp will be used herein, except when in a direct quotation.
      His first wife and mother of his children, who died in Stamford on the 16th day, 6th month (16 August) 1658, was named ELEANOR ___.[5] He married (2) at Stamford on 9 March 1658/59 UNICA (___) (BUXTON) BROWN, widow of Clement Buxton and Peter Brown.[6] Since she was not mentioned in his will, she is presumed to have died before 1670.
      The standard "Knapp Genealogy" is full of error and must be used with caution.[7] It does, however, contain some interesting historical and biographical information, including a list of the lands of Nicholas Knapp in Watertown, and a complete transcription of his will.[8] He appears to have left Watertown about May 1646, since he sold all the land he had received from the town there to Bryan Pendleton on the 6th day 3rd month 1646, and another acre of meadow (purchased separately in 1645) to Edward Garfield on the same date.[9] According to one Stamford historian, he was briefly in Rye, New York, and nearby Greenwich, before arriving in Stamford about 1649.[10]
      For some unknown reason, the Stamford Town Records do not contain a complete listing of the lands of Nicholas Knapp as they do for many other early residents. He is, however, mentioned regularly as an adjoining landholder in many of the other residents' summaries. The Town Records do contain an interesting purchase on 26 September 1651 by "Nickels Knape" of Elias Bailey's house and home lot of 1 -1/2 acre, purchased earlier by Bailey from John Coe, and adjacent to land already in Knapp's possession.[11] Both Bailey and Coe left Stamford for Long Island, along with many other Stamford people.
      Nicholas Knapp and his stepson Clement2 Buxton, son of his second wife Eunice, "the [a]foresayd Nicholas Knap haveing by and wth the mariage of ye Widdow Buxston administred upon ye estate of Clement Buxton, deceased" made an agreement on 8 March 1666/67 and recorded 31 January 1667/68, the young man having reached his majority, that he (Buxton) would receive title to his father's house and property in return for granting Knapp and his wife the life use of the house and 1/2 of the barn and home lot.[12] On the following day (9 March 1666/67) Nicholas Knapp added an additional detail to the agreement in which he gave "unto Clement Buxton a beding in ye house wch I now am resedent in and what conveniancy I can conveniantly acommodate him wth all for stoedge [storage] of what necisary things he have to put in so that it may be understood I grant him this priveledge as long as I shall live in the house. This my agreement made 9th March [16]66.[13]
      Then, within a year on 19 October 1668, Nicholas Knap purchased the house and 1-1/2 acre homelot of Daniel Simpkins of Stamford for the price of "two oxen and on[e] cow in hand resived & for full satisfaction."[14] This homelot was between the homelots of Richard Scofield on the south and Thomas Lawrence on the north and bounded by the highway on the east and the mill lot on the west.
      His will was dated at Stamford on 15 April (2nd Month) 1670, probated 21 October 1670, and named his children Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Joshua, Sarah Disbrowe, Hanna, Lidea, and Ruth. Sarah Buxton and Eunice Buxton are called daughters in law, and are left property out of the effects of their father Clement Buxton.[15] His son Joshua Knapp was named executor and the will was witnessed by John Weed and Eleazer Slason. The inventory was taken 27 April 1669/70 by John Holly and Clement Buxton, and filed 31 October 1670. [16]
      Children of Nicholas and Eleanor (___) Knapp, first seven born and recorded at Watertown[17] and last two born probably at Stamford:
      i. JONATHAN2 KNAPP, b. Nov 1631, bur. Watertown 27 Dec 1631 "aged 7 weeks."
      ii. TIMOTHY KNAPP, b. 14 Dec 1632, m. BETHIA ___, said to have been the daughter of John Brundish or Brundage.[19] He moved to the town of Rye, (then in Connecticut but now in New York) about 1667 when he purchased a house and homelot there. He was active in community affairs and was constable of Rye in 1681 and 1682. He apparently moved to Greenwich by 1697.[20]
      iii. JOSHUA KNAPP, b. 5 Jan 1634/35, m. at Stamford 9 Jun 1657 HANNAH CLOSE.[21]
      iv. CALEB KNAPP, b. 20 Jan 1636/37, m. HANNAH SMITH.
      v. SARAH KNAPP, b. 5 Jan 1638/39, m. at Stamford 6 Apr 1657 PETER DISBOROUGH / DISBROW.[22]
      vi. RUTH KNAPP, b. 6 Jan 1640/41, m. (1) at Stamford 20 Nov 1657 JOSEPH FERRIS,[23] and (2) 19 Jan 1707/08 JOHN CLAPP.[24]
      vii. HANNAH KNAPP, b. 6 Mar 1642/43,[25] living at the time of her father's will in 1670.[26]
      viii. MOSES KNAPP, b. say 1645, perhaps at Stamford, m. by 1669 ABIGAIL WESTCOTT.
      ix. LYDIA KNAPP, b. say 1647, probably at Stamford, m. at Fairfield 16 Jan 1666/67 ISAAC HALL.[27]
      Footnotes:
      1. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686," 5 volumes in 6 (Boston: the Press of William White, 1853-1854), 1: 83, 99, 243. This fine was partially paid and partially forgiven, and it may be that the cure was somewhat successful after all.
      2. Although there is no specific record of the fact, he may very well have come with the Winthrop fleet that arrived in Massachusetts Bay in June and July of 1630 (Charles Edward Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630" (1930, repr: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 78.
      3. Robert C. Anderson, "The Great Migration Begins - Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," 3 volumes (Boston: The New.England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2: 1136.
      4. The Great Migration Begins (note 3), 2: 1136.
      5. Stamford Town Records, 1: 20, transcription copy, 26, Connecticut Ancestry Society microfilm #1. Her name is spelled "Eliner" in the record, which was written two different times on the same page. She was called Eleanor "Disbrow" by Capt. James S. Ferris in his, "A Ferris Genealogy" (Coronado, CA: the author, 1980), vol. 2, ID No. 12. She has also been called Eleanor "Lockwood" by several authors but this is very unlikely (see Harriet Woodbury Hodge, "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood [1594-16351 of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood [ca. 1625-1693] of Stamford Connecticut" [New York: Philip V. Lockwood, 1978], 82.) Other surnames have also been proposed but all of these identities for her are considered speculative at this time.
      6. The Great Migration Begins (note 3), 2: 1136, citing Paul W. Prindle's analysis in his Gillespie Genealogy.
      7. Alfred Averill Knapp, Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (Winter Park, FL: the author, 1953).
      8. Knapp Genealogy (note 7), 2.
      9. Suffolk Deeds Liber I (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1880), 1: 71.
      10. Jeanne Majdalany, "The Early Settlement of Stamford Connecticut 1641-1700" (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1990), 173.
      11. Stamford Town Records, 1: 53, transcription copy, 65.
      12. Stamford Land Records, A: 18-9.
      13. Stamford Land Records, A: 19.
      14. Stamford Land Records, A: 143.
      15. Fairfield Probate Records, 2: 55. The month was given as 2nd month on both the will and the inventory, which was April old style. Mead and others have incorrectly called it February.
      16. Fairfield Probate Records, 2: 56.
      17. Henry Bond, "Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston ..." (Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860), 327.
      18. All data are as given in The Great Migration Begins (note 3), 2: 1136-7 except where noted. Lists of spouses given in the Knapp Genealogy (note 7) and other secondary sources are similar, but have additional marriages for many of the children that have not yet been verified. This list follows Anderson who discounted many of these additional marriages for lack of proof. Also note his discussion and rejection of the claims that William Knopp of Watertown was a close relative of Nicholas Knapp.
      19. Although Bethia's identity is given as fact by Norman Davis in his "Westchester Patriarchs" (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1988), 36-7, 140, it is not confirmed by Anderson, or by Donald L. Jacobus in his, "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," 2 volumes in 3 (Fairfield: Eunice Dennie Bun Chapter, DAR, 1930-1932), 1: 108.
      20. All from Charles W. Baird, "Chronicle of a Border Town: History of Rye Westchester County, New York 1660-1870" (Camden, ME: Picton Press [reprint], 1994), 416.
      21. Stamford Town Records, 1: 20, transcription copy, 26.
      22. Stamford Town Records 1: 19, 74, transcription copy, 74, 87. Some authors have claimed that she had an additional first marriage to John Disbrow, but this is unlikely since she was called Sarah Knapp in 1657.
      23. Stamford Town Records, 1: 74, transcription copy, 87.
      24. Stamford Town Records, 1: 128, transcription copy, 164. See also Ferris Genealogy (note 5), vol. 2, ID no. 12.
      25. Mr. Bond gave the year as "1643-4" in his Watertown Genealogies (note 17) but Anderson gives it as 1642/43 based on the original (The Great Migration Begins [note 3], 2: 1137.)
      26. Early Settlement (note 10), 174, lists a marriage for her to Zerubbabbel Hoyt in 1673, but there is no such marriage in the generally reliable David W. Hoyt, "A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families with Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families..." (Providence and Boston: the author, 1871, repr. Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1984), 311-2.
      27. Old Fairfield (note 19), 1: 250. It is sometimes claimed that she married Richard Mills but Jacobus explained that this Mills marriage instead belonged to Lydia the daughter of Roger Knapp of New Haven and Fairfield (Old Fairfield [note 19], 1: 365, 411.)"

      DEATH:
      1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 24, author's notes in ( ): "p. 26 [1:20], Eliner, wife to Nickolus Knap, died 16:6:58. (16 Aug 1657. This death record was previously recorded nine lines above on the same page (1:20).)"
      The other record reference herein reads the same except that her husband's name is spelled "Nicholus Knap."