Caleb KNAPP 1636–1675 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 20 NOV 1636
Event Place: Watertown,,Middlesex County,MA,UNITED STATES,

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 20 JAN 1637
Event Place: Watertown,,Middlesex County,MA,UNITED STATES,

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 14 OCT 1669
Event Place: Hartford,,Hartford County,CONN,UNITED STATES,

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Will
Event Date: 15 APR 1670
Event Place: Stamford,,Fairfield County,CONN,UNITED STATES,
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Estate Valued at 166 lbs, 13 shillings\
27 April 1670}}}

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Occupation
Event Date: 12 MAY 1670
Event Place: Hartford,,Hartford County,CONN,UNITED STATES,

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Occupation

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 10 NOV 1675
Event Place: Stamford,,Fairfield County,CONN,UNITED STATES,

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 14 NOV 1675
Event Place: Stamford,,Fairfield County,CONN,UNITED STATES,
Record Source:
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\outl0\strokewidth0 \strokec2 Caleb Knapp was born on 20 January 163637 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, a son of Nicholas Knapp and Eleanor ______.\
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He married Hannah Smith In Stamford, New Haven Colony Circa 1660.\
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Propounded as a freeman of Stamford by the General Assembly at Hartford on 14 October 1669 and again on 12 May 1670.\
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He died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut between the writing of his will on 11 October 1674 and the inventory of his estate on 4 March 167475.\
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ABSTRACT OF PROBATE RECORDS AT FAIRFIELD, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD, AND STATE OF CONNECTICUT.\
BY SPENCER P. MEAD, LL.B. Volume 3, 1675 - 1690. Page 51.\
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KNAP, Caleb, late of Stamford, will dated Oct, 11, 1674, probated Mch. 9, 1675, mentioned his wife Hanna, and children Caleb, John, Moses, Samuell, Sarah, and Hannah, and Abigail Smith a sister of his wife. Overseers Joshua Knapp and John Holly Sr. Witnesses Daniel Westcott and Moses Knapp, page 34.\
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Inventory taken Mch. 4, 1675, by William Newman and Jonathan Silliek and the following owed the estate, Vis: Goodman Hull of Stratford, John Ketham, Mr. Bishop, Mr Asguir, Daniel Westcott, John Millers. and John Weed, and filed Mch. 9, 1675, page 36.}

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Probate
Event Date: 31 OCT 1670
Event Place: Stamford,,Fairfield County,CONN,UNITED STATES,
Record Source:
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\outl0\strokewidth0 \strokec2 Nicholas Knapp
\b0 \'a0was born circa 1605. The English origins of Nicholas Knapp remain undiscovered.\
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He emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, perhaps with the Winthrop fleet which arrived in the summer of 1630.\'a0\
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On 1 March 163031, he was in\'a0
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\b0 \'a0where he was \'93fyned 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 acc\'f5n of whome hee hath receaued money for the sd water\'94. The fine was paid in part and the remainder was forgiven.\
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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.\
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He sold his properties in Watertown and removed to\'a0
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\b0 , New Haven Colony in 1646, where he also became a landowner.\
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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.\
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He 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.\
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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.\
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Inventory taken Apr. 27, 1670, by John Holly and Clement Buxton, and filed Oct 31, 1670, page 56.\
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[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.]}