Individual Details For -   Nicholas KNAPP
Gender	Male
Date Of Birth	BEF 16 MAY 1592	Date Of Death	16 APR 1670
Place Of Birth	Wells, Norfolk, England	Place Of Death	Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Date Of Baptism		Date Of Burial	AFT 16 APR 1670
Place Of Baptism		Place Of Burial	Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Date Of Christening		Date Of Emigration	1630
Place Of Christening		Emigration Facts	to Watertown, Massachusetts
Place Of Education		Date Of Education
Fact Notes
Removed to - 6 MAY 1646 Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Individual Notes
From: SAVAGE-COLLINS, ORIGINS & DESCENDANTS, 1630 - 1960. A chronicleof selected descendants of certain immigrant ancestors from Britain, Ireland and Korea and who hold Connecticut in common. Compiled and edited by R. Thomas Collins, Jr. NICHOLAS KNAPP (Knap) was born in 1605 in East Anglia, probably in thevillage of Bures St. Mary, Suffok. Nicholas was a weaver, one of a growing number of Puritan weavers and artisans who not only suffered religious persecution but also suffered economically because the long wars in Europe cut off markets for their goods. Early spellings in England were Cnaep, Cnepe, Knepe or Knopp. Nicholas spelled his name Knap, the second "p" not used until the time of the American Revolution. A Saxon name, cnoep meant hilltop, the word knob having the same origin. Nicholas and his wife, ELINOR LOCKWOOD, a daughter of Edmund Lockwood, of Combs, Suffolk, sailed with John Winthrop's fleet of 11 ships in 1630. The Massachusetts Bay Company selected Winthrop governor and established a settlement on the Shawmut Peninsula now called Boston. Nicholas and Elinor Knapp settled in Watertown with the congregation headed by Winthrop's associate, Sir Richard Saltonstall. Their church was established on July 30, 1630. On March 1, 1631, Nicholas was fined five pounds by the MassachusettsGeneral Court for "taking upon him to cure the scurvy by a water with no worth nor value which he sold at a very dear rate." Unless the fine was paid, the court said, Nicholas was to be whipped and imprisoned. Nicholas's friend, William Pelham and his father, or brother-in-law, Edmund Lockwood, paid three pounds of Nicholas' fine and promised the rest later. When no one who had bought the water complained and some, in fact, said the water helped cure their ailments, the rest of the fine was forgiven. By 1636, Nicholas owned 30 acres. By 1639, he owned a farm of 117acres, a home lot of 16 acres, 43 acres of upland, seven acres of meadow, six acres of plowland, two acres in Pine Marsh and one acre in Pond Meadow. On March 6, 1646, Nicholas sold everything and set out for Stamford, Connecticut spending two years in Wethersfield before reaching his destination in 1648. In Stamford, Nicholas owned a small mill and 16 acres of farmland. Elinor died in 1658. Nicholas later married Unity (Buxton) Brown, the second wife and widow of PETER Brown. Nicholas, who died in 1670, and Elinor (Lockwood) Knapp had nine children, including a daughter, Ruth, and a son, Joshua. Nicholas' will was dated 15 April 1670.