Ruth Knapp

b. 1641 · Stamford CT

Born 1641, Stamford, Connecticut

Father: Nicholas Knapp

Children include Ruth

Ruth Knapp was born on 6 January 1641, a daughter of Nicholas Knapp and his wife Eleanor. Her father held land at Stamford, Connecticut, by 1640. Her mother died at Stamford in August 1658. Her father married again and died in April 1670. His will, dated the 15th of that month, names his children Moses, Timothy, Caleb, Sarah Disbrow, Hannah, Lydia and Ruth.

On 20 November 1657, at sixteen, she married Joseph Ferris at Stamford. The register writes it "20, 9, 1657", counting the months from March. Their son Peter was born there on 8 November 1660. They moved to Greenwich, where Joseph was one of the town's first proprietors. They had at least eleven children: John, Peter, James, Moses, Benjamin, Caleb, Joseph, Joshua, Hannah, Ruth and Lydia. Her daughter Ruth married Samuel Peck, the minister's son, in 1686.

Joseph died in 1699 and named her first among the administrators of his estate. On 15 June 1711, as "Ruth Ferris, widow of Joseph Ferris," she sold her son Joshua all her right, title and interest in her husband's estate. Her death is not recorded.

Parents

Nicholas Knapp (1606-1670)

Children

Ruth Ferris 1662-1745

Sources

Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, down to 1721, archive.org abstractofprobat00slsn, p. 119 (Fairfield Probate, Book 1689-1701, p. 190).

E. B. Huntington, History of Stamford, Connecticut (Stamford, 1868), archive.org historyofstamfor00hunt, pp. 49-50 and registry. Spencer P. Mead, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich (New York, 1911), archive.org yehistorieofyeto00mead_0, pp. 538, 541 and deed abstracts. Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, down to 1721, archive.org abstractofprobat00slsn, p. 119. Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, vol. 2, C-F (Boston, 2001), pp. 517-521, as quoted in compiled genealogies.

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