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Caleb Knapp

Male 1637 - 1674  (37 years)


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  • Name Caleb Knapp 
    Born 20/20 Jan 1636/7  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 11 Oct 1674 to 4 Mar 1674/1675  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I186  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father 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) 
    Mother Elinor,   b. Bef 1611, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Aug 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 47 years) 
    Married Abt 1630  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F177  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah Smith,   b. Abt 1640, of Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 26 Jul 1691, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Married Bef 1661  of Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F182  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The Julian calendar and not the Gregorian was in use colonially meaning the the first three months were considered part of the previous year. In such situations, date shown with both years with a slash.

      2. "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...
      ESTATE: ...
      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]...
      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]... COMMENTS: ... 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."

      3. The book: "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before 1692" by James Savage, published by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1981, Baltimore, vol.3, p.33: "Caleb, Stamford, s. of Nicholas, freeman 1670, made his will 11 Dec 1674, died soon. He names wife Hannah, and children Caleb, who was b.1661; John, 1664; Moses; Samuel; Sarah; and Hannah."

      4. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks), p191: "Hannah Smith - bc1640, d1685?, m1 c1660 Caleb Knap, m2 c1674 Thomas Lawrence."; P.174: "Caleb - b1637, dc 1674, mc 1660 Hannah Smith (d1685?, d/o Henry, she m2 John Bowers). Greenwich."

      5. John Caleb's wife, Hannah Smith, is sister to Daniel Smith who married John Caleb's niece Hannah Knapp.

      6. Knapp family website indicates this individual was farmer/weaver and his religion was Puritan (Congregational). Will and inventory filed at Fairfield, Fairfield, CT - p36, Vol, 1675-1689; wife, Hannah (Smith), and all children are named.

      7. "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..." Second Generation:
      "B-4. Caleb Knapp, son of A-1. Nicholas and Elinor ( ) Knapp.
      B. 11-20-1636 or 1-20-1637. Watertown, Mass.
      D. Before 3-4-1675, when his inventory was taken. His will dated 12-2-1674.
      M. Hannah Smith at Stamford, Conn. about 1660 and lived there. She d. June, 1685, was daughter of Dr. Henry Smith, of Stamford and his 1st wife, name unknown, son of Thomas Smith of London. She m. 2nd Thomas Lawrence, b. 12-3-1648, son of Thomas Lawrence and wife Martha. Martha was b. England, 1619 d. ca. 1686, Stamford. Thomas Lawrence, Sr. d. 1648. He and wife Martha were admitted to the church at Milford, Conn. 7-4-1642. They had: 1. Martha, b. 8-9-1646. m. Elephalet Jones. 2. Thomas, b. 12-3-1648. m. Hannah, widow of Caleb Knapp. Martha Lawrence, widow of Thomas, Sr. m. 2nd John Chapman, of Stamford. She m. 3rd 12-17-1657, Francis Brown.
      C-10. Caleb, b. 11-24-1661. m. 9-3- or 11-23-1694, Hannah Clements.
      C-11. John, b. 7-25-1664. d. 4-5-1749. m. 1692, Hannah Ferris and Martha Weed.
      C-12. Moses, b. ca. 1666. d. 1753. m. 10-30-1689, Elizabeth Crissey. [Author's later supplement includes note: "Perhaps Caleb d. 1773."]
      C-13. Samuel, b. ca. 1668. d. 1739. m. ca. 1696, Hannah Bushnell.
      C-14. Sarah, b. 1670, Stamford, Conn. d. at Greenwich. m. ca. 1685/91, Ebenezer Mead. He b. 1663. d. 1728, son of John Mead and his wife, Hannah or Anna Patton or Potter, of Stamford. Gen. Mead, in command at the Battle of Gettysburg, was a descendant. Sarah and Ebenezer had: -John.-Susannah, m. 9-5-1726, Moses Husted. -Abigail, m. 1724, Isaac Holmes. -Caleb, m. 1716, Mary Holmes, sister of Isaac, (Stephen-John-Francis.) -Jeremiah -Alpheus. -Sarah, m. Hobby. -Hannah, m. Hobby.
      C-15. Hannah, b. ca. 1676, Stamford, Conn. m. 1st Nathaniel Cross, of Stamford, 11-6-1696. He d. 10-28-1714. She m. 2nd 3-31-1715, Samuel Palmer. She was probably a mother of Deborah Cross who m. John Knapp. (Hannah Knapp, dau. of Moses and Abigail (Westcoast) Knapp, is sometimes given identically with this Hannah. Which is correct is uncertain. As shown by their will, both had a dau. Hannah, but their future is uncertain.)
      B-4. Caleb Knapp was admitted Freeman at Stamford in 1669/71. His will was made 11-10-1674 and says: "I give unto Abigail Smith, my minor sister-in-law, my wife Hannah and unto my six children, namely, Caleb-John-Moses-Samuel-Sarah-Hanna, etc., and implore my beloved friends, Joshua Knapp, John Hody, Daniel Wistell and Moses Knapp, witnesses." His inventory was taken by William Newman and Jonathan Sellick, 3-4-1774/5, amounting to 170 pounds, 16 shillings and 4 pence. (See Fairfield Probate Records, Vol. 1675-1689, p. 36.) In his father's will he is called "John Calep." He was probably a weaver by trade as his father left him his "loom and half of the geers." His wife Hannah Smith was dau. of Dr. Henry Smith of Stamford and Wethersfield who was b. in England ca. 1612/19. His 1st wife whose name is unknown was mother of all his children. He m. 2nd Ann . A Henry Smith, age 22, and Ann Jackson, age 23, came to New England, 7-27-1635, on the ship "Princess." After Caleb's death his widow m. Thomas Lawrence before 7-4-1686, of Stamford. (Fairfield Probate Records, Vol. 1675-1689, p. 239) Henry Smith, father of Hannah, made his will 7-4-1687 at Stamford. He mentions "grandson John Knap" and "dau. Hannah Lorance" etc. In Vol. 1689-1701, p. 48, Thomas Lawrence of Stamford, made his will, dated 7-26-1691, mentions "daughter-in-law, Hannah Knapp" and "son-in-law Samuel Knapp" (meaning step-dau. and step-son). The inventory of Thomas Lawrence's estate, who d. 8-16-1691, taken 9-16-1691 says: "John Knapp, having ye knowlig of this Inventory, being son-in-law to ye deceased, and having these things, most of them under his custody" (meaning step-son). Henry Smith's wife, Ann. d. June 1685."
      [Author's later supplement includes note: "J.D. Baldwin... writes: 'D.L. Jacobus agrees in my determination that Ann ___, 2nd wife of Henry Smith, was the same as Ann (___) Andrews, widow of Francis Andrews. Her three children, Rebecca, Ruth and Abraham, were the same as Rebecca, Ruth and Abraham Andrews, children and Francis'."]

      8. "Abstracts of Stamford Probate records," compiled by Spencer P. Mead: "Knapp, Nicholas, late of Stamford, will dated Feb. 15, 1670, probated Oct. 31, 1670, mentioned his children Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Joshua, Sarah Disbrow, Hannah, Lidea, and Ruth; Sarah Buxton and Unice Buxton are called daughters-in-law, and are left property out of the effects of their father Clement Buxton. Executor son Joshua. Witnesses John Weed and Eleazer Slawson, page 56. Inventory taken Feb. 27, 1670, by John Holly and Clement Buxton, and filed Oct. 31, 1670, page 56. F1-19."

      9. The book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011), p. 92: "Page 103 [1:88]" mentions land transacted 23 Mar 1669 by John Rockwell and Daniel Wescott which is partially bounded by land owned by "Caleb Knap."

      10. The book "History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868…," by Rev. E. B. Huntington (A Corrected Reprint of the 1868 Edition, 1979), p. 56:
      "Knapp, Caleb, son probably of the above [Nicholas Knapp], had a son, Caleb, born in 1661. His will, bearing date, 10, 3, 1674, names his children: Caleb, John, Moses, Samuel, Sarah, and Hannah.
      Knapp, Joshua, son of Nicholas, was married here in 1657 to Hannah Close. He had one child recorded here -- Hannah, born March 26, 1660. He lived later in Greenwich, having had then seven children, Joshua, Joseph, Ruth, Timothy, Benjamin, Caleb, and Jonathan. His inventory bears date Oct. 27, 1684."

      11. The book "History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868…," by Rev. E. B. Huntington (A Corrected Reprint of the 1868 Edition, 1979), pp. 55-56:
      "KNAPP, NICHOLAS, had land here in 1649, as appears from the land records. His wife, Eleanor, died August 16, 1658. Savage thinks he may have come in the fleet with Winthrop and Saltonstall in 1630., His children were Jonathan, born Dee. 27, 1631; Timothy, Dec. 14, 1632; Joshua, Jan. 5, 1635; Caleb Jan. 20, 1637. Sarah, Jan. 5, 1639; Ruth, Jan. 6, 16A1; and Hannah, March 6, 1643. After coming to Stamford he had probably Moses and Lydia. After the death of his wife, Eleanor, he married, March 9, 1659, Unity, widow of Peter Brown, who had also been the widow of Clement Buxton. He died in April 1670, and his will, now in the probate records of Fairfield, dated the 15th of that month, names the children in the following order: Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Sarah Disbrow, Hannah, Lidea, Ruth, and Sarah and Unica Buxton, daughters of Clement."

      12. 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..."

      13. 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."

      14. 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.)"

      15. 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."

      BIRTH:
      1. "b. Watertown 20 Jan 1636/7 ("Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages - First Book and Supplement" Section 4 in "Watertown Records Comprising the 1st and 2nd Books of Town Proceedings [Watertown 1894])" per the book cited below. Knapp Family website shows undocumented birthdate of 20 Nov 1636 and first name as John Caleb (aka Caleb) with note: "Most records including Caleb's birth record DO NOT indicate a first name of John, however, he is referred to as "John" Caleb in the will of his father."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. "M. by 1661 Hannah Smith (eldest child b. Stamford 24 Nov 1661 (The American Genealogist 10:174); in his will of 4 Jul 1687 Henry Smith of Stamford bequeathed to grandson John Knapp ("History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield" 1:575, Donald Lines Jacobus, comp. and ed.)" per the book cited below.

      2. Knapp Family website reports 26 Mar 1660 at Stamford and Ancestral File accessed 2002 reports 9 Mar 1660 at Stamford. Both of these are fictitious and no date is found in Stamford per the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011). There are, however, children born of this couple starting in 1661.

      DEATH:
      1. No death or probate information found in the book "Stamford Town Records, Vol. 1, 1641-1723," transcribed and annotated by Paul R. Finch, NEHGS (Boston, 2011).

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. See biography notes for father for quote from the book: "The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," 1995, Robert Charles Anderson, ISBN 0-88082-043-8, published by New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. 02116.

      2. From "The Knapp Family" at website: "http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/Knapp.html".

      3. Per book "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial," comp. William Richard Cutter, Reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, p.1389.

      4. 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. The author has prepared a family group sheet on which he notes the following miscellaneous sources:
      -NK Gen (1953).
      -NK Gen Suppl (1956).
      -Hist. of Watertown, Mass, by Bond.
      -Hist. of Stamford, by Huntington.
      -Hist. of Greenwich, by Mead.
      -Fairfield Probate Rec., v. 1665-1675, p. 55.
      -Amer. Anc., v. 8, p. 166.
      -Ferris Gen.
      -TAG 1:112.
      -Boston Town Record.
      -MCR, v. 1.
      -Winthrop Fleet, by Banks.
      -Fam. of Old Fairfield, by Jacobus.
      -Hist of Chf. Fam. Bearing the Name fo Knapp, by O.G. Knapp (1939).