Sarah (Young) Knapp (abt. 1626 - abt. 1696)

Born about 1626 in Middlesex, England [uncertain]

Wife of John (Knapp) Knap — married 25 May 1660 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1696 at about age 70 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Birthdate estimated based on marriage and children birth dates.

JOHN (son of immigrant William and Priscilla Akers, widow of Thomas Akers); b. in England about 1624; m., May 25, 1660, Sarah Young. His will, proved April 27, 1696, mentions his wife Sarah and children i. to viii. in the following list.

children:

1. . John, 6. May 4, 1661.
2. . Sarah, b. Sept. 5, 1662 (called in John's will, Sarah Park).
3. . Henry, executor of his father's will. In 1716 he was protecting settlers against the Indians.
4. . Isaac, b. 1672(?).
5. . Mary, m, Simon Tozer, of Weston, Mass.
6. . Joshua.
7. . Abigail, m., Oct. 3, 1712, Benjamin Newton, of Marlboro, Mass.
8. . James, probably lost in the expedition against Quebec in 1690.^[1]

Sources

• "North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000," Record of Marriage for Sarah Young, (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ContentPegFamilyHistories&h=1731466).
• "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," (http://archive.org/stream/knappfamilyiname01knap/knappfamilyiname01knap_djvu.txt).
• Ancestral File Number: 8SHL-0X

1. ↑ From Registry of Deeds, East Cambridge, Nov. 9, 1736: " Isaac Knapp, of Salem, and wife Anna grant land in Maine, west of Skowhegan, granted in right of his brother James, who was in the Canada expedition, now deceased."

Acknowledgments

• Young-813 created on 14 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
• Young-892 created on 14 September 2010 through the import of Wilson.ged.
• Young-3668 created on Jul 27, 2011 by Kay Haden through the import of Comstock for Wiki.ged.