Person:Christina Knight (6)

BIOGRAPHY: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 30 page 275

Mrs. Emily Briggs Chatfield. DAR ID Number: 29764 Born in Voluntown, Connecticut. Wife of Constant Webb Chatfield. Descendant of Solomon Tift, of Connecticut; Corp. Jonathan Briggs and Barzilla Knight, of Rhode Island. Daughter of Ezra Briggs and Christina Knight, his wife. Granddaughter of Wanton Briggs and Mary Tift, his wife; Zuroyal Knight and Lucinda Tompkins, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Jonathan Briggs and Abigail Greene, his wife; Solomon Tift and Eunice Burrows, his wife; Barzilla Knight and Eleanor Carpenter, his wife, m. 1776. Solomon Tift. (1758-1850), served on a privateer and in the militia. He was captured at Fort Griswold and suffered on the prison ship ?Jersey.? He was the last pensioner of the Revolution from Groton, Conn. Jonathan Briggs, (1755-1837), served as corporal at Germantown. Monmouth and Yorktown. He was placed on the pension roll, 1818, for over six years actual service in the Rhode Island Continental Line. He was born in East Greenwich; died in Coventry. R. L. and upon his tombstone is inscribed ?a soldier of the Revolution.? Also Nos. 3474, 8104, 14711, 17078, 17366, 19084, 21391, 22490. Barzilla Knight enlisted, 1775, as a private in the Rhode Island Line. He died, 1821, and in 1836 his widow applied for a pension, which was allowed.

BIOGRAPHY: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 59 page 230

Mrs. Lillian Briggs Barron. DAR ID Number: 58669 Born in Voluntown, Conn. Wife of W. H. Barron, Jr. Descendant of Solomon Tift (Tefft). Daughter of Ezra Briggs and Christina Knight, his wife. Granddaughter of Wanton Briggs and Mary Tift, his wife. Gr-granddaughter of Solomon Tift and Eunice Burrows, his wife. Solomon Tift (1758-1850) served on a privateer early in the war. he was a private in the Connecticut Line when captured at Fort Griswold, and suffered great hardship on the ?Jersey.? He was the last Revolutionary pensioner from Groton, Conn. He was born in South Kingston, R. I.; died in Old Mystic, Conn. Also Nos. 17366, 55958.

DEATH: Coventry, Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries By Dr. Bill Eddleman and John E. Sterling 1998 Manchester Cemetery CY109

  This is one of the three cemeteries commonly called Knotty Oak. It is located 20 feet south of Washington Street (Route #117) just west of the intersection with Route #116, opposite Woodland Cemetery (CY066), and next to Pine Grove Cemetery (CY030). It contains about 2000 burials with 1495 inscriptions. There are 40 Civil War Veterans in this cemetery identified on their gravestones and probably more who are not identified.
  James Arnold visited this cemetery on November 21, 1904, (Vol. 6, Book 17, page 463) and on November 29,1905, (Vol. 6. Book D, page 508), "At Knotty Oak east of end beside the N.Y.N.H. & H.R.R. track, are a number of burial lots. We commence with that of the Manchester lot at the north part of the burial lots. This part of the lots are some neglected as are also the fact with some of those to the south." This cemetery was also recorded in 1985 by Amelia K. Whitford. Section A, next to the road, is surrounded by granite posts and iron rails.

A0019 Briggs,Ezra 9 Oct 1830 - 28 May 1921

      h/o Christiana (Knight); s/o Wanton & Mary  (Tift)

A0020 Briggs, Christiana (Knight) 3 Apr 1835 - 2 Jul 1926

      w/o Ezra; d/o Zuroyial & Lucinda (Tompkins) Knight