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94. James Knapp (b. 1627), son of William Knapp

James Knapp was born in 1627. [1] He married Elizabeth Warren by 1655. [1][2]

95. Elizabeth Warren (bp. 1629), daughter of John Warren

Elizabeth was baptized on 21 July 1629 in Nayland, Suffolk. [3]

Elizabeth Warren is referred to as Elizabeth Knapp, the wife of James Knapp, in her father's will. [4, 491]

James Knapp took the oath of fidelity in 1652. [5]

Elizabeth was one of the bewitched persons named by Cotton Mather. [3]

Children of James Knapp and Elizabeth Warren:

i. Elizabeth Knapp was born on 21 (2) 1655 in Watertown. She married Samuel Scripture.

ii. James Knapp was born on 26 May 1657 in Watertown and died on 26 September 1657 in Watertown. [6, 1:20]

Endnotes:

1. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts (Boston: NEHGS, 1860), 327–8.

2. Clarence Almon Torrey, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," database, AmericanAncestors, 2:903.

3. John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England and Their Origins (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2008), 479–93.

4. Records of Littleton (Charleston: Acme Bookbinding, 1994).

5. "Massachusetts: Miscellaneous Census Substitutes, 1630–1788, 1840, 1890," database, AmericanAncestors, entry for James Knapp.

6. Watertown Historical Society, Watertown Records, 4 vols. (Watertow:, the Society, 1894, 1900, 1900, 1906).

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