- Nicholas Knapp was born circa 1605. The English origins of Nicholas Knapp remain undiscovered.
He emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, perhaps with the Winthrop fleet which arrived in the summer of 1630.
On 1 March 1630/31, he was in Watertown where he was "fyned five pounds for takeing vpon him to cure the scurvey by a water of noe worth nor value which he solde att a very deare rate, to be imprisoned till hee pay his ffine or give securitye for it, or els to be whipped and shalbe lyable to any mans accõn of whome hee hath receaued money for the sd water". The fine was paid in part and the remainder was forgiven.
Watertown land records from 25 July 1636 through 10 May 1642 make mention of the following properties of Nicholas Knapp: a 16 acre homestall; a 117 acre farm; 2 acres in Pine Marsh; 1 acre at Pond Meadow; 6 acres of plowland on the Hither Plain (Beaverbrook Plowlands); 13 acres of upland on the Farther Plain; 7 acres at Remote Meadows; and 30 acres of upland in the Great Dividend.
He sold his properties in Watertown and removed to Stamford, New Haven Colony in 1646, where he also became a landowner.
Nicholas Knapp died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut between the writing of his will on 15 April 1670 and the inventory of his estate on 27 April 1670.
Nicholas Knapp married
(1) Eleanor ______ circa 1630 and
(2) Unica ______ (widow of Clement Buxton and Peter Brown) on 9 March 1659[/60?].
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ABSTRACT OF PROBATE RECORDS AT FAIRFIELD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
BY SPENCER P. MEAD, LL.B. Volume 2, 1665 - 1675. Page 19.
KNAP, Nicholas, late of Stamford, will dated Apr. 15, 1670, probated Oct. 31, 1670, mentioned his children Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Joshua, Sarah Disbrows, Hanna, Lidia 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 Elazer Slawson, page 56.
Inventory taken Apr. 27, 1670, by John Holly and Clement Buxton, and filed Oct 31, 1670, page 56.
[NOTE: The dates of the will and the inventory have been corrected here from Spencer Mead's original transcript, where the month was given incorrectly as February.]
Gravesite Details
Gravestones removed in 1806 for construction of the Connecticut Turnpike. [2]
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The Duttons of New England
Abt 1606 - 1670 (~ 64 years)
Has no ancestors but 11 descendants in this family tree.
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