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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. "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."
2. 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
OCCUPATION: Tanner.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 4 March 1634/5 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 163415 (as "John Brandishe," third in a sequence of six Watertown men) [MBCR 1:370].
EDUCATION: The Inventory included "books" valued at £2.
ESTATE: The inventory of the estate of John Brundish of Wethersfield, taken 27 October 1639, totalled £304 6s., of which "her house and land" was valued at £130; at the end of the Inventory was an annotation that "[s]he hath 5 children, the 2 eldest girls, the next a boy, the other two girls"; 'a note brought in Court since the inventory" stated that "Rachell Brundishe hath 14 acres of meadow, her houselot 3 acres, and what upland belongs thereunto in every division, saving what her husband and she sold, vizt. her share beyond the river and 6 acres in Penny Wise" [CCCR 1:444-45]. Administration on the estate was granted on 7 November 1639 to the widow [CCCR 1:40]. On 2 April 1640, "Rachel Brundish of Weathersfield presented an inventory of her husband's estate, which amounted (all debts being paid) to £90 Ss. 4d. and the hotttie and! land was rated at £130. And it was thought fit and ordered that the relict of the said Jno. Brundish shall have to he..- own wie the £90 5s. 4d.; and the land with the house to be for the children's portions, vizt.£30 to the son and £25 apiece to each of the 4 daughters to be paid into the Court for their use when each of them come to the age of sixteen years and in the meantime the widow to have the use of the land for the bringing up of the children"; further provision was made for the widow to sell some of the land if necessary [CCCR 1:45-46]. (See also Manwaring 1:3-4.)
ln the Wethersfield land inventory, on 27 April 1641, "Rachell Brundish widow" held eight parcels: "one piece whereon her house standeth containing three acres"; "one piece in the great meadow containing nine acres & twenty poles ... this is part swamp"; "one other piece in the great meadow containing three acres two roods ... this is part swamp also"; "one piece of meadow & swamp in back lots containing three acres & a half & twenty poles"; "one piece in the east side of east field of dry swamp containing six acres one half"; "one piece in the west swamp containing five acres"; "one piece in the west field containing seventeen acres three roods & twenty poles"; and "one other piece in the west field containing seventeen acres three roods & twenty poles" [WetLR 1:193].
The first volume of Fairfield probate records contains the record of the distribution of the estate of the widow of John Brundish, on a page the top third of which has been lost to fire. After a preamble of which only a few words survive, there are three numbered sections. The first of these also contains only a few words, but mentions an "agreement" which "Anthony [burned]" made which was "dated 5 [bumed]." The beginning of the second section is partiaily lost, but gives to "John Brundish" land, including the "house & houselot," "he paying these legacies [burned] out of the land: unto Mary Purdie the wife of Francis Purdie eight pounds ..., unto Bethia Brundish eight pounds and unto Posthume Bnmdish eight pounds, Posthume is to have her portion at eighteen years of age" or at marriage, Bethia is to have hers immediately. The third section is undamaged: "It is ordered that the said Anthony Wison shall have the homelot in Fairfield that sometimes was Rachell Brundishes with the small house that was on it to be to him and to his heirs forever in consideration of which & towards the children portions he is to pay as followeth: unto Mary Purdie the wife of Francis Purdie ten pounds presently, unto Bethya Brundish five pounds and unto Posthume Brundish ten pounds; Bethya is to have it presently and Posthume is to have hers at the age of eighteen years or at her marriage if she marry sooner. Also the said Anthony is to let the said John have the young mare according to a composition that they have made before Mr. Ludlowe the said John is to let the son of Francis Purdie have the rust colt of the mare according as it was then agreed. John is to have the money that the tools of a tanner were sold for Rachell Brundishe having sold them thereupon the price 16s., those tools he was to have by the agreement in 5 August 1642" [Fairfield PR 1:88].
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]."
3. "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...
CHILDREN...
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])..."
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. 146-48:
"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]
Footnotes: 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."
SOURCES_MISC:
1. From "The Knapp Family" at website: "http://members.tripod.com/~Silvie/Knapp.html"
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