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Caleb Knapp

Male 1637 - 1675  (37 years)

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  • Name Caleb Knapp  [1, 2, 3] 
    Birth 20 Jan 1637  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Gender Male 
    Alternate death Between 11 Oct 1674 and 4 Mar 1675  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Alternate death Between 10 Nov 1674 and 4 Mar 1675  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Death Between 2 Dec 1674 and 4 Mar 1675  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Alternate death Aft 11 Dec 1674  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Alternate death Bef 9 Mar 1675  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Person ID I7971  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 10 Sep 2025 

    Father Nicholas Knapp,   b. Abt 1606   d. Between 15 Apr 1670 and 27 Apr 1670, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 64 years) 
    Mother Elinor   d. 16 Aug 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1631  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 11] 
    Family ID F599  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah Smith,   b. Abt 1640   d. Between 4 Jul 1687 and 16 Sep 1691, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1661  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Children 
    +1. Capt. John Knapp,   b. 25 Jul 1664, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Apr 1749, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    +2. Moses Knapp,   b. Abt 1666, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 16 Apr 1753, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 87 years)
    +3. Samuel Knapp,   b. Abt 1668, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1739, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years)
    +4. Sarah Knapp,   b. 1670, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1728, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
    Family ID F1823  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Sep 2025 

  • Notes 
    • He was probably a weaver, since his father's will left him his "loom and half of the geers".

      8XG grandfather of Taylor Swift:

      Caleb Knapp (1637-~1675) = Hannah Smith (1642-1685)
      Samuel Knapp (~1668-~1739) = Hannah Bushnell (b. ~1676)
      John Knapp (~1700-~1758) = Margaret Taylor
      Amos Knapp (~1740->1784) = (Unknown) Nelson
      Comfort Knapp (1770-1850) = Tarzah Gillett (1774-1849)
      Annice Knapp (1818-1880) = Daniel Thompson (~1813-1876)
      Willis Wilbur Thompson (1852-1940) = Barbara Marie Jane Kingsley (1857-1927)
      Bernice Maude Thompson (1882-1979) = Archie Dean Swift (1877-1961)
      Archie Dean Swift (1914-1998) = Rose Baldi Douglas (1920-1994)
      Scott Kingsley Swift (1952- ) = Andrea Gardner Finlay (1958- )
      Taylor Alison Swift (1989- )

      See our entry for Caleb's father Nicholas Knapp for his descent to Travis Kelce.

  • Sources 
    1. [S474] History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield by Donald Lines Jacobus. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1930-32.

    2. [S396] Belnap Family Organization.

    3. [S4059] Ancestry and Descendants of Amaziah Hall and Betsey Baldwin by Edith Bartlett Sumner. Los Angeles, 1954.

    4. [S648] New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation ed. William Richard Cutter. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913-14.

    5. [S664] Nicholas Knapp Genealogy by Alfred Averill Knapp. Winter Park, Florida: 1953.

    6. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    7. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.

    8. [S3756] Knap Knapp Family Genealogy by Charles Ruggles Knapp. Winona, Minnesota: 1905.

    9. [S7402] Robert Louer, "The Smith Families of Stamford, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 45:3, 2002.

    10. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008.

    11. [S2306] The Winthrop Fleet: Massachusetts Bay Company Immigrants to New England 1629-1630 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012., date only.

    12. [S664] Nicholas Knapp Genealogy by Alfred Averill Knapp. Winter Park, Florida: 1953., says "abt 1660".

    13. [S663] Descendants of Thomas Smith., says "abt. 1660".

    14. [S7416] Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Ancestry of William Weed of Stamford and Darien, Connecticut." Connecticut Ancestry 50:101; 50:145; 51:1, 2008., says "say about 1660".


 

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