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Joseph Knapp

Male 1664 - Bef 1723  (< 59 years)


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  • Name Joseph Knapp 
    Born 1664  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 12 Dec 1723  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I862  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Joshua Knapp,   b. 5/05 Jan 1634/5, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Oct 1684, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Hannah Close,   b. Abt 1632, of Grinton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Oct 1695, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Married 9 Jun 1657  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Lockwood,   b. Abt 1654, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Dec 1723, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Married From 1706 to 1713  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • 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..." Notes for Timothy include the mention of his brother Joseph in his probate as follows:
      "The executors of Timothy Knapp's will were his son Israel and cousin Jonathan Knapp. Witnesses were Jariah Knapp, Jonathan Weed and Thomas Roberts. Inventory 11-7-1733 by John Hobby or Hobley and David Reynolds. Filed 7-2-1734. He made his will 10-15-1733. Mentioned wife Martha, brother Joseph, son Israel, grandson, Timothy, daughter Prudence, Ruth and Hannah, and cousin Jonathan Knapp, of Greenwich. His will was probated 11-6-1737."
      [Author's later supplement includes note: "Joseph's will was dated 16 Mar 1715/6, probated 12 Dec 1723."]

      2. "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...":
      "Joseph, b. 1664, Greenwich, Conn. d. 1716 or 1723. m. Widow Mary (Lockwood) Husted, dau. of Robert and Susannah ( ) Lockwood and widow of Jonathan Husted, or Elizabeth Reynolds who d. before him. No record of children by either. He was the Representative from Greenwich in the Conn. Assembly in Oct. 1706, Apr. 1707, Oct. 1708, May 1709 and Aug. 1710. In 1688 he was among the legal voters of Greenwich. In 1694 he bought the homestead of Moses Knapp. He deeded land 3-12-1703 to his bro. Caleb. He was on the Town Tax List of Greenwich in 1694/5 for 73 pounds. In 1706 he was appointed guardian of David Reynolds, of Greenwich. He was appraiser and administrator of the estate of John Reynolds, 12-12-1701."
      Concerning the father: "Joshua Knapp moved to Stamford, Conn., with his father in 1646, m. there and lived there for some time. In 1663 he moved to Greenwich, Conn. where he was admitted Freeman in 1669, making his home there until his death in 1684. He was one of two persons who made the bargain with the Indians when Bedford Parish was bought from them. The agreement between the Indians and Stamford Colony was witnessed by Joshua Knapp and David Waterbury and signed by seven Indian Chiefs dated 12-23-1680. He bought land in Rye in 1681. His inventory is dated 10-27-1684 and is spoken of as a good estate. He mentions the children named above, except Jonathan, saying that the sons shall receive their share at the age of 21 and the daus. at the age of 18. The will is signed by the widow Knapp, John Bowers and Moses Knapp, all of Stamford, Conn., and also by John Reynolds. Joshua was made Proprietor at Greenwich 2-5-1664. He gave a deed in Stamford 1-14-1657. He was probably a weaver by trade as his father willed him "the other half of the gears" to his loom. Inventory of his estate in 1684 places its value at 54 pounds. He was one of the Committee of Sixteen to confer about the dividing line between Greenwich and Rye. John Bowers was made Proprietor at Greenwich 2-5-1664, was called 43 years old in 1681 and d. in 1694. No children."
      [Author's later supplement includes note: "Joseph's will was dated 16 Mar 1715/6, probated 12 Dec 1723."]

      3. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
      "Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654. She m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan3 Huestis (Angel2, Robert1).(73) She m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp.(74)
      Footnotes:
      73. Fairfield Probate Records 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5.
      74. On 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the Town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relect of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich Deeds 2:85]."

      4. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "Robert Lockwood...
      Children...
      xi. Mary Lockwood, b. say 1654; m. (1) by 1681 Jonathan Huestis [Fairfield PR 3:314; TAG 30:127-28, 73:204-5]; m. (2) by 1713 Joseph Knapp (on 28 April 1713, "Joseph Knap of the town of Gree[n]wich ... & Mary his wife formerly Mary Heusted relict of Jonathan Heusted of the said Greenwich deceased" deeded to Jonathan Jessup land formerly held by Jonathan Huestis [Greenwich LR 2:85; FOOF 1:317-18])..."

      5. The book "History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868…," by Rev. E. B. Huntington (A Corrected Reprint of the 1868 Edition, 1979), p. 56:
      "Knapp, Joshua, son of Nicholas, was married here in 1657 to Hannah Close. He had one child recorded here -- Hannah, born March 26, 1660. He lived later in Greenwich, having had then seven children, Joshua, Joseph, Ruth, Timothy, Benjamin, Caleb, and Jonathan. His inventory bears date Oct. 27, 1684."

      6. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11:
      "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight...
      ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
      He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
      Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
      i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
      ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
      iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
      iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
      v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
      vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
      vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
      viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
      ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
      x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
      xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."

      7. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43:
      "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263).
      Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635.
      Children, surname LOCKWOOD...
      xi. MARY, born Fairfield CT say 1654; married (1) Greenwich CT by 1681. Jonathan2 Heustad, born there say 1650, died there 1706, son of Robert1 and Elizabeth1 (Miller) Huestad; married (2) there after 1706 Joseph3 Knapp, born there 1664, son of Joshua2 (Nicholas1) and Hannah (Close) Knapp (Torrey 399 and 443).
      (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. 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 Stamford, by Huntington.
      -Hist. of Greenwich, by Mead.
      -Fairfield Probate Rec., v. 1665-1675, p. 55.
      -Stamford Registration.
      -Stamford Colony Rec.
      -Rye, NY (CT) Land Rec. 1681.
      -Greenwich Vital Rec.
      -Inventory of Estate dtd. 27 Oct 1684.
      -Proprietor Rec., 5. Feb 1664.
      -Fam. of Old Fairfield, by Jacobus.