These sources may help in the current discussion of the Knapp family. Nina Florida Re: the wives of Nicholas Knapp - Elinor [Unknown]; Unica [Unknown], previously m to Clement Buxton and Peter Brown 1. Nicholas and his first wife, Elinor, departed Southampton, ENG March 22, 1630 to Yarmouth, ENG and departed April 6, 1630, to Salem, MA, arriving there June 12th and settled at Watertown, Middlesex, MA. They came to New England with the "Winthrop/Saltonstall Expedition of 1630." SOURCE: The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 (Reprint 1976), by Charles Edward BANKS:53, "...As there is no known list if emigrants, who came in the Winthrop Fleet, so there is none of those who came in particular ships...." 2. MARRIAGE: (1) By 1631 Elinor _____; she d. Stamford 16 August 1658 [TAG 10:45]. (2) Stamford 9 March 165[8/]9 Unica (_____) (Buxton) Brown [TAG 10:113]. She was widow of Clement Buxton and Peter Brown [Gillespie Anc 61-63], and had apparently died by 15 April 1670, as she is not mentioned in her third husband's will. SOURCE: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 Bk. II, pp. 1135-7; Best source for Nicholas: condensed bibliographic sketches on families who arrived in America between 1620-1633, and is entitled "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633" (1995 - in 3 Volumes), by Robert Charles Anderson, F.A.S.G. 3. From will of Nicholas Knapp; re: children of his second wife Unity [her first marriage to Clement Buxton]: Fairfield Probate Records, Vol 1665-1675, page 55 & 56, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, Connecticut, In Stamford ye 15th 2mo Anno 1670 [15 Apr 1670]: item 8. I give to my two daughters-in-law [step daughters], viz: Sarah and Uneca Buxton, all their mother's clothes as a free gift, except one hat and one new pettecote, which my will is they should have onward of their portion. Also I will and bequeath unto Uneca Buxton the new Bible as a free gift. item 9. My will is that portions due my daughters-in-law [step daughters], viz: Sarah and Uneca Buston, out of the estate of their father Clement Buxton: I say that their part and portions be currently payd according to their portion of the inventorie. STATE OF CONN, Probate Court Dist of Fairfield SOURCE(S): Abstract of Probate Records of Fairfield, Connecticut 1648-1750:19; Nicholas Knapp Genealogy (1953), by (Dr) A.A. Knapp, :2-3 Re: Goody Knapp, the witch - the following may be of interest 1. A Goody KNAPP [no given name recorded] was accused of being a witch. The STAPLES family also was caught up in the witch craze. Thomas Staples' wife herself must have been an interesting character. At a court of Magistrates held May 29, 1654, the plaintiff, Thomas Staples [of Fairfield], claimed that Roger Ludlow had defamed his wife in reporting to Mr. and Mrs.Davenport that she had laid herself under a new suspicion of being a witch, that she had caused Knapp's wife to be "new searched" after she was hanged [1653]. [see sources in #2] 2. Thomas Sherwood was in Fairfield, Connecticut and Deputy to General Court in Wethersfield, Connecticut when "Goody" Knapp was hung in 1653 for witchcraft. Mary (Fitch) Sherwood [wife of Thomas]is documented as having been personally involved with convicted witch Goodwife Knapp and her Court testimony at a subsequent trial is the only surviving record today in Connecticut's history of that event. Goodwife Knapp is believed to have been the first wife of Roger Knapp, a very early settler of New Haven, Connecticut. As Roger was the only Knapp appearing in Fairfield records at that period, Donald Lines Jacobus in his volumes "Families of Old Fairfield" makes the connection of the two. The witch trial testimony of Mary Sherwood is found in The Witchcraft Delusion - The Story of the Witchcraft Persecutions in Seventeenth-Century New England, Including Original Trial Transcripts" by John M. Taylor, Gramercy Books New York & Avenel, Chapter 10, pp. 122-141, It is actually a trial following the Witch trial in which "Goody" Knapp's husband, Roger Knapp, attempted to sue Thomas Ludlow for defamation of his wife's character and her hanging as a convicted witch. The story of Mary Sherwood's involvement with Goody Knapp is also found in Witchcraft Trials of Connecticut, by R. G. Tomlinson, "The First Comprehensive, Documented History of Witchcraft Trials in Colonial Connecticut, copyright 1978 by R. G. Tomlinson, printed by The Bond Press, Inc., Hartford, Conn., pp. 7-9. The Court case is also found in History of Fairfield No. II, Suit of Thomas Staples Against Roger Ludlow, New Haven Col. Rec. Vol. 3. 77-89", pp. 324-328. SOURCE: Robert E. Gibson, GEDCOM file imported on 7 Feb 2000., (Kailua, HI--Robert E. Gibson 7 Feb 2000); http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/i/b/Robert-E-Gibson-Camarillo/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-Sources.html