We do know that both the Knapp family and the Philbrick family were both Puritans and that the Knapp family did cross the Atlantic in 1630. In Charles Banks' "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630", we get a picture of what their journey was like.

    The Arbella was the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet. John Winthrop, the leading Puritan leader of the Massachusetts Bay Company, sailed on board the Arbella when she and three other ships sailed from Yarmouth at the Isle of Wight on April 8, 1630. In comparison to the better known Pilgrims and the Mayflower, records show that the Winthrop Fleet was well supplied during the crossing. The Arbella carried 10,000 gallons of wine and fourteen tons of freshwater and forty-two tons of beer. Despite these and other ample supplies, the trip could still be quite hazardous. Besides the danger posed by the sea to the ships, scurvy could break out due to the lack of vegetables and citrus fruits like lemons and limes. Beer seemed to have been the home remedy as it wasn't until the following spring with the return of the Lyon (a ship which sailed prior to the Arbella) that the much needed lemons and limes arrived and abated the scurvy situation. Many died in between this time though, victims not of the New World but of the voyage from the old.

    Among the accounts of the voyage of the Arbella, it is known that she stopped to do some fishing off the banks of New Foundland and they resupplied some of their used up food stores. A short time later the passengers picked strawberries while on Cape Ann which is north of Salem near Gloucester.