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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. 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 175: "Thomas Lawrence, Jr. lived on the corner of West Street and the road to the mill. A section to the northwest of Stamford was known as Lawrence's Farm. When he died in 1691, he left bequests to his step-sisters...he also included his wife's children, particularly John Knap."; "Thomas' father lived in Milford, CT. After his death in 1648..."; "Thomas - b1648, d 1691, mc1674 Hannah Knap (dc 1685, d/o Henry Smith, wd/o Caleb)."
2. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 88, "p. 99 [1:84]," has a 1677 Stamford listing of meadow assignments including #25 for Thomas Laurence with 49 units.
Same book on p. 211, Appendix 2, lists a probate for Thomas Lawrence as Fairfield Probate Rec. 4:48-48b.
3. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 45, no. 1 (Aug. 2002), "The Smith Families of Stamford, Connecticut," by Robert Louer, E-mail: vwrjl@att.net , pp. 3-6
"Children of Henry Smith and his Unknown first wife:
-Hannah2 Smith, b. say 1640 possibly at Stamford,[25] d. possibly before 1691 at Stamford.[26] She married say 1660 probably at Stamford, Caleb Knapp, son of Nicholas and Elinor (___) Knapp; b. 20 Jan 1637 at Watertown, MA,[27] d. before 9 Mar 1674/5 at Stamford. Caleb's will dated 11 Oct 1674 was probated 9 Mar 1674/5.[28] She m2) before 4 Jul 1687,[29] Thomas Lawrence, son of Thomas and Martha (___) Lawrence; bp. 3 Dec 1648 at Milford,[30] d. 16 Aug 1691 at Stamford.[31] Thomas' will dated 26 Jul 1691 was probated 3 Nov 1691.[32] Issue: Her first marriage Caleb, John, Moses, Samuel, Sarah, and Hannah...
Footnotes:
25. Based on birth dates of her husband and children.
26. She is not mentioned in her husband's estate.
27. Watertown Record, 4. Date recorded as 20d 11m 1636.
28. Fairfield PR, 3:36.
29. Fairfield PR, 3:239. She was called Hannah Lawrence in her father's will.
30. Milford First Congregational Church Record, as cited in Barbour Church Records.
31. Fairfield PR, 4:48..."
4. 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. 148-49:
"CALEB2 KNAPP (Nicholas1) was born at Watertown, Massachusetts on 20 January 1636/37, and died at Stamford between 11 October 1674 and 4 March 1674/75, the dates of his will and the taking of his inventory. [28]
He married HANNAH SMITH, daughter of Henry1 Smith, at Stamford say about 1660. She was born say about 1640, possibly at Stamford, the daughter of Henry Smith and an unknown first wife.[29] After Caleb's death, say about 1676, She married (2) Thomas Lawrence, born at Milford, Connecticut 3 December 1648, son of Thomas and Martha Lawrence.[30] She had probably died some time prior to 26 July 1691 when her second husband did not name her in his will.[31]
In his will, made on 11 October 1674 and probated 9 March 1675 (probably 1674/75), he mentioned his wife Hannah, and children Caleb, John, Moses, Samuel, Sarah, and Hannah. He also named Abigail Smith, a sister of his wife. Overseers were to be Joshua Knapp and John Holly, Sr. (who had also taken his father's inventory). The witnesses were Daniel Westcott and (his brother) Moses Knapp. His inventory was taken on 4 March 16[74/]75 by William Newman and Jonathan Selleck.[32]
Children of Caleb and Hannah (Smith) Knapp, all probably born at Stamford although only two recorded there:[33]
i. CALEB3 KNAPP, b. 24 Nov 1661,[34] m. 23 day 9th month (Nov) 1694 HANNAH CLEMENTS.[35]
ii. JOHN KNAPP, b. 25 Jul 1664, m. (1) HANNAH FERRIS, and m. (2) Mrs. MARTHA MEAD.
iii. MOSES KNAPP, b. abt. 1666, m. ELIZABETH CRISSEY.[36]
iv. SAMUEL KNAPP, b. abt. 1668, m. HANNAH BUSHNELL.[37]
v. SARAH KNAPP, b. 1670, m. abt. 1691 EBENEZER MEAD.[38]
vi. HANNAH KNAPP, b. abt. 1676, m. (1) 6 Nov 1696 NATHANIEL CROSS,[39] m. (2) SAMUEL PALMER.[40]"
Footnotes:
28. Fairfield Probate Records, 3: 36.
29. Robert Louer, "The Smith Families of Stamford, Connecticut," Connecticut Ancestry, 45(2002): 6.
30. Old Fairfield (note 19), 1: 376.
31. Louer, "Smith Families of Stamford" (note 29), 45: 6.
32. All information from Fairfield Probate Records, 3: 36, Mead abstracts used.
33. Spouses names from Knapp Genealogy (note 7), 6-7 except where noted.
34. Stamford Town Records, 1: 98, transcription copy, 116.
35. Stamford Town Records, 1: 104, transcription copy, 123.
36. Stamford Town Records, 1: 101 records the marriage but the date is not legible.
37. Old Fairfield (note 19), 1: 134-5.
38. Spencer P. Mead, "History and Genealogy of the Mead Family" (New York: The Knickerbocker Press), 1901), 183, 222.
39. Stamford Town Records, 1: 104, transcription copy, 123.
40. Horace Wilbur Palmer, "Palmer Families in America," Volume 1 (Neshanic, NJ: Neshanic Printing Co., 1966), 128-9, which has good additional information on both of her marriages."
5. 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."
DEATH:
1. The book "Stamford Town Records, Volume 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, (Boston: NEHGS, 2011), pp. 136-38:
"Page 144 [1:118]
([6 September 1691]) Inventory of Thomas Larenc, who, deceased 16th Agust, 1691.[428]
([Imprs, one musket 30s]); on iron tramel 11s; on iron peell 7s - 02. 08. 00
([It. two small ir])on hoops 1s; beetle rings & wedges 12s - 00. 13. 00
([It. two old hows]) & on old spade 3s; on axe 6s; on axe 3s 6d - 00. 12. 06
([It. one more) ax 3s, on grediron 6s; on small frieng pan 3s 6d - 00. 12. 06
It. On half bushel 2s; on pail wth a bail 2s; on handle pails 1s 4d - 00. 05. 04
It. On hetchell 10s; a small bed,[429] nettle skillet 6s - 00. 16. 00
It. 2 trays, 2s 6d; on bel metle pot 12s; on brass kettle 15s - 01. 09. 06
Page 145 [1:118]
It On smaller Kittle 8s; On hammer 2s; gimlet 6d - 00. 10. 06
It. Nippers 12d; a steel 6d; 3 alls 12d; 2 ould hors shoos[430] 6d; 2 firrills 4d - 00. 03. 04
It. Five tongs 5s; old sizers 6d; small tunnel 6d; iron spindle 12d - 00. 07. 00
It. On iron lamp 12d; on smoothing iron 2s; Old tunnel 8d - 00. 03. 08
It. A great peuter bason 10s; a smaller bason 6s; 2 small platters 6s - 01. 02. 00
It. On small sa[u]sor 12d; on bible 5s; 3 dussen buttons 3s - 00. 09. 00
It. 4 yd serg at 12s pr yd 48s; a yd linen cloath 4s; straining claoth 1s - 02. 13. 00
It. 2 cotten napkins 4s; on towel 1s; cheny platters 6d - 00. 05. 06
It. On flagoy[431] pot 15s; smaller flaggon 7s; old pint pot 2s - 01. 04. 00
It. On brocken peuter cup 2s; on salt siller 5s; on salt siller 2s 6d - 00. 09. 06
It. On rapier 17s; On litle fork 1s; on pistle[432] 8s - 01. 06. 00
It. Bullets & shott & pouch 2s; 2 powder horns & powder 3s 6d - 00. 05. 06
It. A goard shell for ponder 6d; small earthen pot 6d; bras ladle 18d - 00. 02. 06
It. glas botle 1s; Old peuter botle & an old broken[433] poringer 1s - 00. 02. 00
It. 3 peuter platters 6s a piec 3 deepter platters it 6s a piece - 01. 16. 00
It. A great peuter candle stick 8s on poringer 3s 6d - 00. 11. 06
([It.]) A chest 8s; a warming pan 20s; a payer old leather gloves 4s - 01. 12. 00
([It.]) Cart & whells 12s; 4 hoops 16s; 4 boxes for wheels 20s - 02. 08. 00
([It.]) 2 linc pins on washer 2s; boult & shakle 4s - 00. 06. 00
([It.]) Yoke & broken yoke irons 3s; 2 hooks & ring for a draft yoke 3s - 00. 06. 00
([It.]) On hors shoo & neb iron 1s; Old bed 3s; fether bolster 14s - 00. 18. 00
([It.]) A fether pillow & case 2s; a payer sheets 20s; 2 coverlids 20s - 02. 02. 00
([It.]) Trundle bedstead 8s; Cart rope in it 6s; on bedstead & cord 25s - 01. 19. 00
Page 146 [1:118]
([It.]) Curtains 12s; tow yarn 3s; a table 3s - 00. 18. 00
([It.]) On chair 3s; a childs chair 2s; two stoole 1s 6d - 00. 06. 06
([It.]) Old little weell spindle & spool 5s old basket 1S; 3 old barrille 3s - 00. 09. 00
([It.]) Fan 10s; on troff 4s; on troff 2s; half a pound sheeps wooll 9d - 00. 16. 09
([It.]) On box 2s; on hogshedd 4s; a payer scalls[434] 1s - 00. 07. 00
([It.]) On sive 2s; on reell 18d; 3 forms 18d - 00. 05. 00
([It.]) On sith 2s; on sith 4s; on basket & sum old wooll 1s - 00. 07. 00
([It.]) 3 pound flax 2s 6d; on beer barrill 3s; a churn 3s; Old keeler 1s - 00. 09. 06
([It.]) Old tubb 1s; on ancor 1s 6d; Old barrill 1s; on Keeler 2s 6d - 00. 06. 00
([It.]) Sith tackling 2s 6d; Old lanthorn 1s; 7 pound whal bone 18d per pond - 00. 14. 00
([It.]) Tobacco 10s; a pail bail 1s; a whipletree chain 18d - 00. 12. 06
([It.]) Small iron hoop 6d; a surfle[435] 6d; a stirrup iron 6d - 00. 01. 06
([It.]) Old hancaw[436] 1s; a brand 1s; a sadle plate & bite of aid iron 1s. - 00. 03. 00
([It.]) On great Sowe 24s; 4 white swine at 16s a piece - 04. 08. 00
([It.]) On swine 10s; a bridle bits & rains 2s - 00. 12. 00
([It.]) 2 oxen 10£ 10s; on white fast[437] cowe 3£ 10s - 14. 00. 00
(It.) On cowe 3£; on 3 yer old stear 3£ - 06. 00. 00
(It.) On great wheell 4s; hors traises 14s; whipletree chain 2s 6s - 01. 00. 06
(It.) A pound & half of wooll 2s 3d; 4 sheep 10s a piece - 02. 02. 03
(It.) On more swine[438] - 12s - 00. 12. 00
(It.) On chamber pot 4s; a wooden bottle 2s; 26 bushells of oats in the sheafe 45s - 02. 11. 00
(It.) Flax in the sheefe 30s; a frow 6s; a sadle 12s - 02. 08. 00
(It.) A sith 8s; 7 bush corn 17s 6d; a small parsell of blasted wheat 5s - 01. 10. 06
(It.) Land on the backside the ox pastor 30s; land at long neck & roton neck 40s - 03. 10. 00
Page 146 [1:119]
Impr.
Page 147 [1:119]
House & horn lott 40£[;14[439] acres land on the east side my ( ) together[440] - ([60]). ([00.]). ([00])
It. 6 acre land, southfield 15£; 3 acre salt medow at Wescus 30s - ([45]). ([00]. ([00])
It. On acre & half fresh medow at Wescuss - ([15]). ([00]). ([00])
It. on horse 5£; On mare & colt 4£; More on mare & colt 4£ - 13. ([00]). ([00])[441]
Footnotes:
428. The probate records of Thomas Lawrence are also recorded in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48, 48b [FHL 0,004,287], and were used to help fill in the mussing gaps in this record.The Barbour Collection (Stamford: 115), citing Stamford Town Records 1:118, failed to include the date of 16 Aug. 1691 as the record of Thomas Lawrence's death.
429. This word is "bell" in the Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48a [FHL 0,004,287].
430. These words are "sno shoos"in the Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48a [FHL 0,004,287].
431. This word is "flaggon" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48a [FHL 0,004,287].
432. This word is "something" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48a [FHL 0,004,287], but it is probably "pestle."
433. This word is "peuter" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48a [FHL 0,004,287].
434. This phrase is "pair of scales" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287].
435. This word is "swefle" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287]. Possibly "swivel" is what was intended.
436. This word is "hand saw" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287].
437. This word is "face" in Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287].
438. Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287] records this as "One swine at Joseph Brown's."
439. Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287] has "four" instead of "14."
440. Fairfield Probate Records, 4:48b [FHL 0,004,287] has "Mianus River." instead of "my ( ) together."
441. The inventory of Thomas Lawrence was not totaled either here in the Stamford Town Records nor the Fairfield Probate Records, but the sum here amounts to 203£ 3s 10d."
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