Person:Phineas Knight (8)

Military: Volume 20 page 13 Mrs. Jessie Knight Jordan. DAR ID Number: 19030 Born in Ware, Massachusetts. Wife of D. S. Jordan Phinehas served seven years in the Continental Army. He was in the Battle of Bunker Hill. He was placed on the pension roll of Hampshire County,Massachusetts, 1818, for 2 years service of a private in the Connecticut Line.

While serving in the Continental Army he wintered at Valley Forge.

Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists: 1755 - 1783 SURNAME:Knight FIRST NAME:Phinehas RANK:Private PAGE#:124 REGIMENT: Light Infantry REGIMENT COMMAND:Marqs.De La Fayette COMPANY:Riley, Captain AREA OF SERVICE:Southard

Part of a letter from Irene Knight Armitage 14 January 1935 sent to me by Phil Seldon Phineas made application for a pension which he swore to April 14, 1818, and gave his age which places his birth about 1755. Following is abstract of his declaration for a pension.

    He states that on 1 Feb 1781, he enlisted in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, with Lt. James Hyde, a recruiting Officer at Norwich, in the state of Connecticut, and soon after, joined the Army at the Highlands on the Hudson River. " I was put into the 3rd Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb, Capt. John Riley's company; I continued in said Regiment till the close of the war, and during that time served against the common enemy. A new arrangment was made and I was placed in the company of Capt. Douglas and finally in the company of Lt. Eb. Wales and on 19 Dec. 1783 was discharged and then received the discharge which is here annexed."

1818 - Phinehas made application for a pension, saying he enlisted from Norwich, Connecticut and was then of Norwich (Huntington),Massachusetts

From the Pension List of 1820, Phinehas Knight, RANK: Artificer and Private,Connecticut RESIDENCE:Massachusetts

D.A.R. # 23739 Mrs. Alice Austin Knight Pryor

Ten years in Paradise. CHAPTER X. page 92 Mrs. David Starr Jordan--Entered through her great-grandfather, Phineas Knight of New England, who was with Colonel Putman's Connecticut regiment during the struggle for independence.

DEATH: Norwich Hill Cemetery Huntington,,Massachusetts JoggerPhil@aol.com

In memory of PHINEAS KNIGHT A revolutionary soldier who fought at Bunker Hill And served 7 yrs in that Army

Died Feb 28, 1833 Aged 78 Yrs

Hitty Sanford, His Wife Died Jan 24, 1819 Aged 63 Yrs

BIOGRAPHY: Excerpt from file by Irene Knight Armitage January 14, 1935 received from Philip K. Seldon

    A niece of Hitty (Sanford) Knight, stated that at the close of the War, Daniel Sanford, sold his farm in Saybrook, Conn; and moved to Norwich, Mass; where he bought about 400 acres of land on the "Hill". 3 of his sons-in-law came a little later, on of them was Phineas Knight with his wife Hitty. Phineas first bought land on the "Hill", set out apple trees and built a house. Later he sold this place and moved to the east side of the river to get willows to make baskets. She thinks he was from Haddam or Norwich, Conn; (no town records of his birth in Haddam or Norwich) Phineas was a man of great education for those days, genteel deportment, a great reader and scholar.

    Phineas and Hitty Knight are buried in Norwich Hill Cemetery, Huntington, Mass; where a stone marks their grave. The old church on Norwich Hill still stands and I found their names on the old church record as members added after Rev. Benj. Woodbridge was ordained in 1799.