Person:Erastus Knight (14)

Census: KNIGHT, ERASTUS

 State: MA Year: 1820 
 County: Hampshire County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule 
 Township: Chesterfield Township Page: 140 
 Database: MA 1820 Federal Census Index 

KNIGHT, ERASTUS

 State: MA Year: 1830 
 County: Hampshire County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule 
 Township: Chesterfield Page: 460 
 Database: MA 1830 Federal Census Index 
 

KNIGHT, ERASTUS

 State: MA Year: 1840 
 County: Hampshire County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule 
 Township: Chesterfield Page: 217 
 Database: MA 1840 Federal Census Index 
 

BIOGRAPHY: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume II

Knight 

(VI) Erastus , son of Joshua Knight , was born at Chesterfield , November 18, 1776 , died February 14, 1846 . He married (first) April 6, 1802 , Polly Little , of Williamsburg, Massachusetts . She died May 10, 1808 , aged twenty-eight years, six months. He married (second) November 30, 1809 , Lucy Smith , who died January 17, 1829 , aged fifty-one years. He married (third) May 28, 1829 , Theodosia Cushman , who died March 4, 1833 , aged forty-six. He married (fourth) Electa Bullard , of Williamsburg . She lost her life in the Williamsburg flood, May 16, 1874 , aged eighty years. He lived in Northampton and Chesterfield , whither he moved in 1818 . Children: 1. Fanny , born January 9, 1803 , died June 14, 1857 ; married Luke Wilder , of Chesterfield ; removed to western New York ; had seven children. 2. Harriet , born November 17, 1804 , died the same day as her mother, May 10, 1808 . 3. William , born at Northampton , January 17, 1807 ; lived at Chesterfield from the age of eleven to twenty, then at Williamsburg three years, in New Jersey a year, in Greenfield three years, moved thence to Michigan in the spring of 1834 with the Smede family; married, December 23, 1834 , Anna Smede , and celebrated his golden wedding; his wife was born at Bolton, Warren county, New York , September 14, 1810 , died at Adrian, Michigan , July 4, 1885 . 4. Samuel Swett , born September 6, 1810 , died at Williamsburg , January 20, 1889 . 5. Mary , born at Northampton , August 10, 1812 , died September 25, 1813 . 6. Jonathan Henry , born December 5, 1814 ; settled in Worcester ; married 797 Persis Goodwin , of Springfield , who died in 1847-48 , leaving one son, James Henry , now president of the First National Bank of Hartford ; Jonathan Henry married (second) Harriet S. Alvord , of Hartford , who died November, 1862 ; children: Persis Browning , married Otis Redden , of Worcester , and Harriet Sophia , married Mr. W. F. Hatch , of Hartford ; Jonathan Henry died March 27, 1862 , at Worcester . 7. Merrick , born January 15, 1817 ; mentioned below. 8. Martha , born June 10, 1819 , died at Worcester , February 21, 1889 . 9. Elizabeth Sophia , born October 12, 1821 ; married T. L. Whitney in 1846 ; children: Henry S. , of Berkeley, California ; Mrs. Sarah M. Meyers , of Bridgeton, New Jersey ; Mrs. Horace Sawin , of California .

Green's Connecticut Annual Register and United States Calendar For the year 1844 Hartford Published by Samuel Green 1844 Erastus Knight is list as the following On the Board of Directors of the Thompson Bank State Representative from Windham County

History and Genealogy of the Families of Chesterfield Massachusetts 1762-1962 Published by The Town of Chesterfield, Massachusetts 1962 - Page 224 5. Erastus Knight (Joshua 1), b. 18 Nov. 1776, d. 14 Feb. 1846; m. (1) Lucy…., perhaps dau. of Ebenezer Dwight of Hatfield. She d. 7 Feb. 1829. He m. (2) (int. 7 May 1829), Theodamia Cushman. She d. 4 Mar. 1833. He m. (3) Mrs. Electra Bullard of Williamsbury. She was admitted from the church in Conway, 7 May 1837. He had several children by the first wife but only two are recorded in Chesterfield. Mrs. Electra Knight was lost in the Mill River flood.

Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, From the year 1617 to 1855 By Henry Wyles Cushman. Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1855 - Page 308