James
Knapp
aka Knap, Knope, Knopp
Born before in Wormingford, Colchester Borough, Essex, England
Ancestors 
Son of William Knopp Sr.
and Judith (Tue) Knopp
Brother of
Elizabeth (Knapp) Buttery, William Knopp Jr, Mary (Knapp) Smith, Ann (Knapp) Philbrick, John (Knapp) Knap and Judith (Knapp) Cady
Husband of
Elizabeth (Warren) Knapp
— married
about 1654 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Knapp) Scripture and James Knapp
Died before
at about age 74
in Watertown, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
James Knapp immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
James, son of William Knoppe and Judith (Tue) Knapp, was christened on 30 April 1626, in Wormingford, Essex, England.[1][2][3]
During the summer of 1630, James and his family were headed to America in the "Winthrop's Fleet". Contained within the reconstructed passenger's lists of the Winthrop Fleet, the family is listed as "Knapp, William, ____, John, Anne, Judith, Mary, James, John, WIlliam Jr."[4]
The family settled in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, where James Knapp was admitted as freeman in 1652.[5]
James was married to Elizabeth Warren, daughter of John Warren, in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. By 1655, when their first child was born in Watertown.[2] [6] Cutter described this marriage thusly: "Elizabeth, one of the bewitched persons mentioned by Cotton Mather; married, about 1654, Sergeant James Knapp, one of the original proprietors of Groton."[7]
James and Elizabeth (Warren) Knapp are recorded as parents of two children, both born at Watertown: [3]
- Elizabeth Knapp, born 21 April 1655[8]
- James Knapp, born 26 May 1657;[9] died 26 September 1657.[10]
James Knapp was one of the first proprietors of Groton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he was granted 20 acres of land, free from taxes for 20 years, to build a mill.[3]
Littleton, Massachusetts, town records show Elizabeth's father, John Warren, Sen., giving by will to "daughter Elizbth Knapp wife of James Knapp 16 acres of ploughland now in their possession." According to the Littleton records, John Warren died at age 82 on 13 December 1667. [11]
Death
James passed away prior to November, 1700, in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Sources
- ↑ Clifford L. Stott, "English Oigins of William and Judith (Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Massachusetts," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 147 (1993):313-328, at 319; digital images by subscription, page AmericanAncestors, citing Wormington parish register.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). page 1145
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Knapp, Arthur Mason. (1909). "The Knapp family in America : a genealogy of the descendants of William Knapp who settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1630 : including also a tabulated pedigree, paternal and maternal, of Hiram Knapp." Boston : Fort Hill Press. p. 8
- ↑ Winthrop Fleet (category), WikiTree, and Ancestry.com U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s at https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7486&h=1447689 ; both citing The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 (An Account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers and Their English Homes, from Original Authorities. English Homes from Original Authorities) by Charles Edward Banks, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.
- ↑ Bond, page 328.
- ↑ Bond, page 328, also see page 620.
- ↑ Cutter, William Richard. (1908). “Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts:Volume 3.” New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1569
- ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Watertown, Vol. 1, page 17: 1655. Elizbath knap the Daughter of James & Elizabath knap borne the 21 : of the Second
- ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Watertown, Vol. 1, page 19: 1657. James Knap the Sonn of James & Elizabeth Borne the 26 of May
- ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Watertown, page 20: 1657. James knap sonn of James & Elizabeth Dyed the 26th of Sep tember
- ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Littleton, Vol. 1, page 491.
- Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1855.
- Clifford L. Stott, "William and Judith (Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Massachusetts," in New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 147 (1993): 315-328.
See also:
- Find A Grave: Memorial #54998659
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