Nicholas KNAPP

1606 - 1670  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Nicholas KNAPP
  Birth	by Abt 1606	England   [1]
  	Based on estimated date of marriage
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 15 Apr 1670 and 27 Apr 1670	Stamford, Connecticut   [1]
  Notes	From The Great Migration Begins, Vol. 2, pp. 1143-1146 (see also an updated sketch in The Winthrop Fleet, pp. 430-433): "NICHOLAS KNAPP ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1630 FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown REMOVES: Stamford 1646 EDUCATION: Signed will by mark. His inventory included books valued at 6s. 6d. ESTATE: Granted thirty acres in the Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 [ WaBOP 4]; granted six acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [ WaBOP 6]; granted seven acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [ WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of 117 acres, 10 May 1642 [ WaBOP 12]. In the Watertown Inventory of Grants "Nicholas Knap" held seven parcels of land: sixteen acre homestall; two acres in Pine Marsh; one acre of meadow; thirty acres of upland in Great Dividend; six acres of plowland in the Hither Plain [Beaverbrook Plowlands]; seven acres in Remote Meadows; and thirteen acres of upland beyond the Farther Plain [ WaBOP 86]; in the Composite Inventory he held eight parcels, comprising the seven parcels of the Inventory of Grants plus the 117 acre farm [ WaBOP 29]. On 29 September 1645 "Nicholas Knap of Watertowne" sold to Edward Garfield one acre of meadow [ SLR 1:71]. On 6 May 1646 "Nicholas Knapp of Watertowne" sold to Bryan Pendleton "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]. In his will, dated 15 April 1670 (date of probate not shown), "Nicolas Knap of Standford" bequeathed to son Moses Knap "my house and land in Standford with all the meadows and upland belonging unto me," with some moveables; to son Timothy money due to Nicholas; to son Caleb "the loom and half the gears"; to son "Josuah" the other "half of the gears"; to "daughter Sarah Disbrowe the money due to me from her husband"; to "daughter Hanna" one mare; to daughter "Lidea the mare that was Mr. Bishop's with the increase she hath"; to daughter Ruth 20s.; to "my two daughters-in-law viz: Sarah & Uneca Buxton" clothes, a Bible, and their share of the estate of their father Clement Buxton; son Joshua to be executor [ Fairfield PR 2:55]. The inventory of "Nicolas Knap" was taken 27 April 1670 and totalled £166 13s. 11½d., of which the "house and lands" totalled £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 d. Stamford 16 August 1658 [ TAG 10:45]. (2) Stamford 9 March 165[8/]9 Unica (_____) (Buxton) Brown [ TAG 10:113]. She was 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 her third husband's will. CHILDREN: i JONATHAN, b. Watertown early November 1631 (calc.); bur. Watertown 27 December 1631 "aged 7 weeks" [ WaVR 3]. ii TIMOTHY, b. Watertown 14 December 1632 [ WaVR 3]; m. by about 1658 Bethia _____ (said to have been Bethia Brundish). iii JOSHUA, b. Watertown 5 January 1634/5 [ WaVR 3]; m. Stamford 9 June 1657 Hannah Close [ TAG 10:45]. iv CALEB, b. Watertown 20 January 1636/7 [ WaVR 4]; m. by 1661 Hannah Smith (eldest child b. Stamford 24 November 1661 [ TAG 10:174]; in his will of 4 July 1687 Henry Smith of Stamford bequeathed to grandson John Knapp [ FOOF 1:575]). v SARAH, b. Watertown 5 January 1638/9 [ WaVR 5]; m. Stamford 6 April 1657 Peter Disborough [ TAG 10:112]. vi RUTH, b. Watertown 6 January 1640/1 [ WaVR 8]; m. Stamford 20 November 1657 Joseph Ferris [ TAG 10:112]. vii HANNAH, b. Watertown 6 March 1642/3 [ WaVR 11]; named in father's will, 15 April 1670; no further record. viii MOSES, 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 [ FOOF 1:660]). ix LYDIA, b. say 1647; m. Fairfield 16 January 1666/7 Isaac Hall [ FOOF 1:250]. ASSOCIATIONS: See WILLIAM KNOPP for a discussion of suggestions of a relationship between William and Nicholas. COMMENTS: 1 March 1630/1: "Nich: 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]; 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." He was possibly from Bures St. Mary, Suffolk. [2]
  Person ID	I3374	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2012

  
  

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• Sources

  [S54] Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995), Vol. 2, p. 1136 (Reliability: 3). [S54] Anderson, Robert Charles, Great Migration Begins, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995), Vol. 2, pp. 1135-1137 (Reliability: 3).