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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. 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.34: "Representative for Rye 1670".
2. 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 174: "Timothy - b1632, d by 1685, mc 1665 Bethia Brundage (d/o John). Rye, NY."
3. "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-2. Timothy Knapp, son of A-1, Nicholas and Elinor ( ) Knapp.
B. 10 or 12-14-1632, Watertown, Mass. Moved to Rye, N.Y. in 1664.
D. at Rye, N.Y. before 1685, probably.
M. Bertha or Bethia Brundage or Brandish or Bowdich, of Weathersfield, Conn., dau. of John, b. 1585. d. 1639, and Rachel (Hubbard) Brandish. She b. ca. 1637. She m. 2nd Anthony Malove of Fairfield. The identity of the wife of Timothy, Sr. and Jr. is still uncertain- both having been assigned a wife with the same name. Timothy and Bethia had a son- perhaps more.
C-1. Timothy, b. ca. 1680, perhaps d. 1734. Living in 1768. m. Bethia [Brundage per author's later supplement] or Elizabeth Seamer? ? 1699.
B-2. There is considerable confusion over the records found concerning Timothy, Sr. and Jr. Sometimes it is uncertain which is referred to. Baird's History of Rye, N.Y. says: "Timothy Knap came to Rye, N.Y. ca. 1664. His house was on the corner of the road leading to the beach. The little congregation met in private dwellings, notably that of Timothy Knap, to whom the Town awarded forty shillings in 1662 for the liberty of his house to meet in, for the beating of the drum for the time past." There was no church as yet. "Not far from the parsonage house, on the opposite side of the Post Road was the house of Timothy Knap, where, for want of a church, the little community were accustomed to meet on Sabbath day for publish worship. They were called to the meeting by the sound of the drum. The services began early and lasted several hours. Evening meetings were unknown. The Sabbath was observed from sunset to sunset. The ordinance of the Lord's Supper was rarely celebrated but baptism was administered very generally." "The greatest part of them," says McBridge, "were baptized before the Church of England was settled here." Several of the "Dissenters" as he calls them are serious people. Some still Presbyterians or Independents in their judgements, but are persons well disposed and willing to partake of the Sacrament in what way they can rather than not at all. In obedience to the Act of 1693, on Feb. 28, 1694/5, Church Wardens and Vestrymen were elected. Timothy Knap was one of the latter. He was on the Building Committee in 1702. Toward the latter part of the century he removed to Greenwich, Conn., where his brother, Joshua, then lived, being recorded there in 1697, and there he took an active part in church matters. Religious and political differences between Timothy and his brother Caleb's family made them strangers to each other. He was on the Town Tax List at Greenwich in 1694/5, being listed at 47 pounds, 5 shillings. In 1704-1706 Timothy and Joshua Knap were on a church committee.
Timothy was a farmer. Probably he was also a blacksmith as he was also called "Smithy." He was Deputy to the Oct. 1670 session of the Court of Conn. or Legislature as it is now called. He served again in 1676-1682-1683. On Oct. 2, 1668, Timothy Knap and others signed a Petition to the Governor in regard to the Town of Rye and its settlement. Timothy Knapp and nine others received the Patent for Rye, lying in Conn. May 14, 1685. At the Town Meeting in 1708 the Town granted Timothy Knap, who apparently had taken lands under the Act of 1699, that he shall have his proportion of the lands in "Will's Purchase" on the lower end of Hackaliah Brown's Wolf-pit Ridge, when it shall be laid out. In 1683 Timothy Knap's name appears in the list of eighteen Proprietors of Peningo Neck, just south of village of Port Chester and included in the original "Will's Purchase" in the final apportionment and fixing of the boundaries of the original purchase of lands at Rye, the lands of Timothy and Moses Knap are located and their boundaries are fixed. Old names and places about Rye include- Timothy's Swamp-part of Saw-log Swamp, named after the old Constable of Rye, Timothy Knap."
4. "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."
5. "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."
6. The book "Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635," by Robert Charles Anderson, volume I, A-B, pp. 446-48:
"JOHN BRUNDISH
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1634
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Wethersfield ...
BIRTH: By about 1604 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Between 20 May 1639 [FOOF 1:107, citing unrecorded deed] and 27 October 1639 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: By about 1629 Rachel ___. She married (2) on or soon after 5 August 1642 Anthony Wilson, and died by 1648 [Fairfield PR 1:88).
CHILDREN:
i MARY, b. say 1629; m. (1) by about 1645 Francis Purdy [FOOF 1:495-96]; m. (2) 1659 or soon after John Hoyt, son of SIMON HOYT [GMB 2:1030, citing POOF 1:495-96; Fairfield PR 3:44].
ii Daughter, b. say 1632; d. between 1640 and 1643 (four daughters mentioned in probate proceedings of 1639 and 1640, but only three daughters in distribution of 1648),
iii JOHN, b. about 1636 (aged 30 years on 25 June 1666 [WMJ 663]); m. by an unknown date Hannah ___. [Fairfield PR 4:141; NYGBR 49:293-94].
iv BETHIA, b. about 1638 (deposed 26 April 1654 aged "sixteen or thereabouts" [NHCR 2:83]); may have married Timothy Knapp or Joseph Taylor [see COMMENTS below].
v POSTHUME, b. late 1639 or early 1640 (as indicated by given name); possibly m. "John Winter, of Westchester, whose wife in several deeds 1692-94 rejoiced in the unusual name of 'Posthumy" [FOOF 1:108).
COMMENTS; Savage has brief and identical entries for this man under "Brandisly" and "'Brundish" [Savage 1:238, 281].
Our knowledge of the marriages of the children of this immigrant remains limited, principally because most of the children moved into Westchester County, and detailed work in the records of that jurisdiction has not been carried out. The existence of two candidates for the husband of Bethia Brundish apparently arises simply because these two men had wives named Bethia. In the case of Timothy Knapp, there is the added bit of evidence of a man named "Brundage Knapp" in the 1800 census of Salem, Westchester County (NYGBR 58:111), suggesting a genealogical connection between Brundish and Knapp, but we don't know enough to tell whether this man derived his name from the suggested marriage of Timothy Knapp.
BIBLlOGRAPHlC NOTE: In 1930 Jacobus published a brief account of John Brundish and his son John, in which he included an abstract of an important unrecorded deed [FOOF 1:107-9]."
7. 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."
8. 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.)"
9. Rye was originally part of Connecticut before state borders were finalized. Savage's Dictionary indicates he was living in Greenwich in 1697.
BIRTH:
1. "b. Watertown 14 Dec 1632 ("Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages - First Book and Supplement" Section 3 in "Watertown Records Comprising the 1st and 2nd Books of Town Proceedings [Watertown 1894])" per the book cited below.
MARRIAGE:
1. "m. by about 1658 Bethia ___(said to have been Bethia Brundish).)" per the book cited below. Ancestral file states Stamford and the date 9 Jun 1957. Internet site noted for Knapp Family states Wethersfield and Brundage.
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. 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).
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