↑ Kenney, Donald S "Martha Edwards, First Wife of William Cleaves of Beverly Massachusetts", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society) Vol 155 p.225.
John Knowlton is the husband of one of Rice's daughters per the 15 Jun 1683 agreement among the children of Rice Edwards: John Edwards, Thomas Edwards, Benjamin Edwards, John Knowlton, John Leach, John Coy, William Cleaves and Richard Lee.
"John Knowlton was first married to Bethia Edwards...She married John Knowlton about the time he became a freeman in 1669. Some of their children were John... Robert... Ezekiel."
'John Knowlton [son of William and Elizabeth Knowlton], born ------, 1646, Ipswich, Mass.; died Aug., 1728, ... Married first, ----, 1669, Bethia, daughter of Rice Edwards of Wenham, Mass., ... Married second, int. April 11, 1714, Susannah Hutton, ...'