Part II - Rednap Family
Joseph Rednap I, (Rednape, Redknap), was born before 1600. He was a wine cooper, from London, Hampton, Middlesex County, England. He came early to Lynn, Essex County Massachusetts.
His wife was Hannah __. He may have been married twice.
He was admitted a freeman on 3 September 1634, and was a proprietor before 1638, when he served as juryman. In 1635, a vote of the town granted him lands at Nahant, Massachusetts, for the purpose of pursuing the trade of fishing. At this time he was said to be in his 80th year, and seemed as enterprising at that age as if he were just beginning active life. In 1638, when certain lands were given to the inhabitants of the Town of Lynn, Joseph Rednap received 40 acres.
He was an Anabaptist, or rather an anti-pedobaptist and was persecuted for his beliefs. On October 1640, he sold land called �Blackbush� near Hampton court, Middlesex, England, then in the possession of his mother, Elizabeth Redknap.
Joseph Rednap died on Friday 23 January 1686, at a very old age in full possession of his faculties, but probably not at the age of 110 as it is recorded. On 29 June 1669, he gave certain testimony under oath in the Salem court stating himself to be �Betwix 70 and 80 years� old. He also gave in evidence in 1657, that he was about 60 years old. If he were 60 in 1657, he was 72 in 1669, and at the time of his death, in 1686, he would have bee 89 or 90. Neither could he have been 80 years old in 1635. His will dated 20 May 1681, written at Lynn (Savage) or probably made at Boston (Pope), bequeathed his land at Springfield to his son Nathaniel, and his estate at Lynn to his son Benjamin.
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Bibliography
History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass, by Lewis and Newhall
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by Savage
Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope
Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700
North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register