Person:Nehemiah Knight (48)

LAND: The Providence,Providence,Rhode Island City Tax, ordered by the city council June 1845, to be assessed at the rate of $.38 cents per $100.00 of ratable property. The following individual was rated as follows.

                                                       Real.      Per.       Amt. Of  Tax

Sylvester R. Knight 5 1,90

BIOGRAPHY: Record of the Descendants of Charles Bowler England - 1740 - America Who Settled in Newport, Rhode Island January 1st 1905 Page 99 - 100 174. Maria Aborn Hoppin Knight Maria Aborn, dau. of Henry and Amy Harris (Bowler) (53) Hoppin, b. Feb. 28, 1812, in Providence, m. Nov. 14, 1837, in Providence, by Rev. Mark Tucker, Nehemiah, s. of Dr. Sylvester and Lucina (Comstock) Knight, b. Feb. 5, 1812, in Warwick, R. I. He d. May 30, 1876 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She d. Oct. 10, 1889, in New Brighton, S. I.

Children: 585. 1 Lucina Comstock, b. Aug. 23, 1838 f. 586 2 Henry Hoppin, b. Jan. 1843 f. 587. 3 Maria Hoppin, b. Nov. 1846, d. Mar. 4, 1851. 588. 4. Amy Trowbridge, b. Sept. 4, 1853. f.

  Nehemiah Knight came from good stock-his family has long be an honored one in Rhode Island. His great-grandfather was member of the House of Representatives in 1803. He wrote a letter, dated Oct. 16, 1803, on his arrival in Washington, containing an account of the incidents of his fortnight's journey, with a fine description of the city as it then was, and a charming story of his first dinner with President Jefferson.
  His great-uncle Nehemiah was elected Gov. of R.I. in 1817, and held the office four years, when he was sent to the U. S. Senate, and served there twenty years.
  The subject of this sketch was a graduate of Brown University 1833. He and Henry B. Anthony, afterward Governor, roomed together during the entire course. Their room was in the third story north division, new college, and they never changed it. It was one of the pleasantest places in the University, to visit. As a young man, Nehemiah Knight was tall, rather slender, light hair, blonde complexion, blue eyes, and a very pleasant expression. He maintained a good stand for scholarship and conduct throughout the course, but the qualities for which he was most distinguished and is best remembered, were his uprightness, integrity, and perfect candor, his gentlemanly bearing, and uniform amiability. After hesitating a little about adopting his father's profession, he went to New York shortly after graduating, and engaged in the dry-goods jobbing business, which he followed until his death, at which time he was a member of the firm of Hoyt, Sprague & Co. In a letter written after the death of Mrs. Knight by a friend who knew them both long and intimately, occurs this tribute: "They both were generous, but generous without ostentation,-neither of them had any relish for what is denominated "fashionable life,"- they were domestic in their tastes and habits, and home was their rendezvous. Mr. Knight was regarded as exceedingly prosperous, but his prosperity did not incline him nor his wife to surrender old friends, whether rich or poor, for new friends, revolving in the orbit of fashionable life,- they were always the same.
  I suppose we ought not to regret her departure for the spirit world, she had reached a ripe old age, and has gone to rejoin the husband of her love, and yet those of us who knew her good qualities, so abundant, cannot refrain from regret that we shall see her face no more."

A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America Charles Elihu Slocum, M.D., Ph. D. 1882 Page 80

CENSUS: 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Nehemiah Knight Age: 37 Estimated birth year: abt 1813 Birth Place: Rhode Island Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Brooklyn Ward 6, Kings, New York Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 6, Kings, New York; Roll: M432_519; Page: 292; Image: 260.

1860 United States Federal Census Name: Nmia Knight Age in 1860: 47 Birth Year: abt 1813 Birthplace: Rhode Island Home in 1860: Brooklyn Ward 6 District 1, Kings, New York Gender: Male Post Office: Brooklyn Household Members: Name Age Nmia Knight 47 Maria Knight 43 Lucine Knight 21 Henry Knight 17 Emma Knight 6 Mary Knight 30 Bridget Cox 30 Ellen Murray 19 Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 6 District 1, Kings, New York; Roll: M653_766; Page: 480; Image: 43.

1870 United States Federal Census Name: Nehemiah Knight Estimated birth year: abt 1814 Age in 1870: 56 Birthplace: Rhode Island Home in 1870: Brooklyn Ward 6, Kings, New York Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Brooklyn Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 6, Kings, New York; Roll: M593_948; Page: 124; Image: 247. Knight,Nehemiah 56 Male White Commission Merchant Knight,Maria A. 56 Female White Keeping House Knight,Henry H. 27 Male White Clerk In Store Knight,Amy C. 25 Female White At Home Knight,Amy L. 16 Female White At Home