Nickname: Knopp (‎09 Oct 2024), born ‎± 1579 at Bures St Mary,,Suffolk,England,United Kingdom, died ‎30 Aug 1658 at Watertown,Middlesex County,Massachusetts,United States‎, age approximately 79 years

William Arrived in America in 1630 indentured to Sir Richard Saltonstall. He is first mentioned in New England on 30 November 1630, when the Court of assistants ordered that "whoesoeuer employeth Willm Knopp or his sonne in any work shall pay the one half of their wages to Sr Rich: Siltonstall, & whoeuer buyeth boards of the shall pay one lafe of the price to Sr Richard, till the money hee hath disbursed for the be satisfied"
- from: English Origins of William and Judith (Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Massachusetts