Person:Rachel Knight (15)

Who were the parents of Rachel?

Was her maiden name Knight?

• per User:Jrich: Most sources, e.g., NEHGR, Vol. 102 (1948), p. 187, "Hope Allen and Granddaughter Deborah (Wager) Henchman" by Winifred Holman, consider the maiden name of Rachel to be unknown. That her given name is Rachel is known from the birth records of their children and several deeds. Sources are needed to support the assertion that her maiden name is Knight.

1. ↑ Rachel Allen, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   Vol 1, p 31.

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   [ALLEN] ... HOPE, Boston 1651, a currier, by
   
   w. Rachel had Jacob, b. 22 Feb. 1654; Joseph, 4 Oct. 1655; Leah, 16
   
   May 1657, d. in few mos. Mary and Martha, tw. 15 June 1659; and Benjamin;
   
   the last two, with the first two, and ano. Leah, yet call. Rachel, were bapt. 16
   
   Sept. 1666. An elder s. Edward liv. at Dover, to wh. we learn from Willis
   
   invalua. Hist. of Portland I. 73,159 he had devis. large part of an est. by
   
   him purchas. of George Cleves, wh. is the most beautif. quarter of the present
   
   city. When he d. is not kn. but it must have been bef. Nov. 1678, when
   
   George Bramhall purch. of the devisee. He left wid. Hannah, wh. m.
   
   Richard Knight bef. 1683. ...