Individual Details

History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, MA
From 1639 to 1800
With a Genealogical register of its Inhabitants
Prior to 1800
By Francis Jackson
Stacy & Richardson, Boston, 1854

The settlement of Newtown [Cambridge] began in 1631.
p.360
Knapp, John,s. of John & Sarah, g.s. of William, of Watertown. Married Sarah Park and had Isaac; Sarah, Aug 13, 1686; John, Dec. 11, 1688; James, Feb 21, 1690.


Vital Records of Newton, MA
To the Year 1850
NEHGS Boston 1905
Births
KNAPP
Isaac, s. John and Sarah ______ ?b. after ch. b. Feb 21, 1690? [I suspect this was a misreading]
James, s. John and Sarah, Feb 21, 1690
John s. John & Sarah, Dec 11, 1688
Sarah, d. John & Sarah, Aug 13, 1686

Deaths
John Knap Sr, Feb 2, 1733
Sarah, w. John, Dec. 19, 1726/7
Lydia Knop, 29 Apr 1734

The Old East Parish Burying Ground is the resting place for all of the founding families of Newton. In 1654, families living south of the river started holding religious meetings locally rather than making the journey to Cambridge. John Jackson provided an acre of land for a burial ground and for a meeting house, and this remained the only burying site for residents of Newton until 1781. A monument was placed in memory of Newton's founders in 1852, erected by the descendants of the first settlers. At the time inscriptions were recorded, only six headstones from the earliest inhabitants were still standing. However, their memory lives on through their descendants.

The original acre was added to three times, and the cemetery was used continuously until near the end of the 1800s. The final addition to the burying ground was made in 1834. Family members dying in Newton after 1781 may be found here in the East Parish Burying Ground, in the West Parish Burying Ground (opening 1781), or in the South Parish Burying Ground (opening 1802).

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1907. Digitized on MyHeritage.com
p. 506 - This book has inaccuracies. It confuses this John with his son of the same name - giving son John an extra wife. It also omits most of the children of John II and Sarah Parke (and gives her surname as "Parks")

Birth	4 May 1661	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Marriage	4 Aug 1686	SARAH Parke
Death	2 Feb 1733	Newtown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Spouse	SARAH Parke (1666 - 1727)
Child	Sarah KNAPP (1686 - 1755)
Child	John KNAPP (1688 - 1730)
Child	James KNAPP (1690 - )
Child	Isaac KNAPP (1692 - )
Child	Jonas KNAPP ( - )
Child	Jonathan KNAPP ( - )
Child	Daniel KNAPP (1708 - 1772)
Child	Ebenezer KNAPP ( - )
Child	Lydia KNAPP ( - 1734)
Child	HANNAH KNAPP ( - )

Father	JOHN KNOPP ( - 1696)
Mother	SARAH Young ( - 1696)
Sibling	Sarah KNAPP (1662 - )
Sibling	Henry KNAPP ( - )
Sibling	Isaac KNAPP (1672 - 1744)
Sibling	Mary KNAPP (1674 - )
Sibling	Joshua KNAPP ( - )
Sibling	Abigail KNAPP ( - )
Sibling	James KNAPP ( - 1690)
Sibling	Living